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We show that the solutions to the nonlocal obstacle problems for the nonlocal $-\Delta_p^s$ operator, when the fractional parameter $s\to\sigma$ for $0<\sigma\leq1$, converge to the solution of the corresponding obstacle problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Catharine W. K. Lo , José Francisco Rodrigues

In this article we use flatness improvement argument to study the regularity of the free boundary for the biharmonic obstacle problem with zero obstacle. Assuming that the solution is almost one-dimensional, and that the non-coincidence set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Gohar Aleksanyan

We present explicit formulas for solutions to nonhomogeneous boundary value problems involving any positive power of the Laplacian in the half-space. For non-integer powers the operator becomes nonlocal and this requires a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Nicola Abatangelo , Serena Dipierro , Mouhamed Moustapha Fall , Sven Jarohs , Alberto Saldaña

In this paper, we establish $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity upto the boundary for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. Our main result Theorem 2.1 constitutes the boundary analogue of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Agnid Banerjee , Ram Baran Verma

We report on new techniques and results in the regularity theory of general non-uniformly elliptic variational integrals. By means of a new potential theoretic approach we reproduce, in the non-uniformly elliptic setting, the optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Lisa Beck , Giuseppe Mingione

We extend basic regularity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem to some classes of heterogeneous quasilinear elliptic operators with variable growth that includes, in particular, the $p(x)$-Laplacian. Under the assumption of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-28 S. Challal , A. Lyaghfouri , J. F. Rodrigues , R. Teymurazyan

In the present paper, we propose the investigation of variable-exponent, degenerate/singular elliptic equations in non-divergence form. This current endeavor parallels the by now well established theory of functionals satisfying nonstandard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Anne C. Bronzi , Edgard A. Pimentel , Giane C. Rampasso , Eduardo V. Teixeira

In this paper we introduce new characterizations of spectral fractional Laplacian to incorporate nonhomogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. The classical cases with homogeneous boundary conditions arise as a special case. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Harbir Antil , Johannes Pfefferer , Sergejs Rogovs

A scheme for generating a family of convex variational principles is developed, the Euler- Lagrange equations of each member of the family formally corresponding to the necessary conditions of optimal control of a given system of ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Amit Acharya , Janusz Ginster

For a linear nonvariational operator structured on smooth H\"ormander's vector fields, with H\"older continuous coefficients, we prove a regularity result in the spaces of H\"older functions. We deduce an analogous regularity result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Marco Bramanti , Maria Stella Fanciullo

We investigate the nonlocal energy corresponding to the $p$-oscillation of the unit normal vector for hypersurfaces, or the unit tangent vector for curves. The energy satisfies geometric inequalities with optimal constants $c(n,p)$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Matteo Novaga , Fumihiko Onoue , Emanuele Paolini

In this article we prove for the first time the $C^s$ boundary regularity for solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations with H\"older continuous coefficients in divergence form in $C^{1,\alpha}$ domains. So far, it was only known that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Minhyun Kim , Marvin Weidner

We develop a unified framework for a broad class of nonlocal elliptic problems, encompassing a wide spectrum of nonlocal terms, including the classical Kirchhoff and Carrier-type equations as particular cases, and nonlinearities having…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 L. Gasinski , H. Ramos Quoirin , J. Santos Junior , K. Silva

For elliptic systems with block structure in the upper half-space and t-independent coefficients, we settle the study of boundary value problems by proving compatible well-posedness of Dirichlet, regularity and Neumann problems in optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Pascal Auscher , Moritz Egert

For a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian, we prove that "flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We recover the regularity results of Caffarelli for viscosity solutions of the classical Bernoulli-type free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Daniela De Silva , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

A recent result from [AtES24] allows one to define variational solutions of the Dirichlet problem for general continuous boundary data. We establish basic properties of this notion of solution and show that it coincides with the Perron…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Wolfgang Arendt , Daniel Daners , Manfred Sauter

A new method is introduced for studying boundary value problems for a class of linear PDEs with {\it variable} coefficients. This method is based on ideas recently introduced by the author for the study of boundary value problems for PDEs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. S. Fokas

Recent work by Serfaty and Serra give a formula for the velocity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem at regular points [Serfaty-Serra 2018], and much older work by King, Lacey, and Vazquez gives an example of a singular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Niles Armstrong , Ivan Blank

We prove the Lewy-Stampacchia inequalities for the two obstacles problem in abstract form for T-monotone operators. As a consequence for a general class of quasi-linear elliptic operators of Ladyzhenskaya-Uraltseva type, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-10 J. F. Rodrigues , R. Teymurazyan

We study the phenomenon of cavitation for the displacement boundary value problem of radial, isotropic compressible elasticity for a class of stored energy functions of the form $W(F) + h(\det F)$, where $W$ grows like $||F||^n$, and $n$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Pablo V. Negron-Marrero , Jeyabal Sivaloganathan