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We study the regularity of free boundaries in the multiple elastic membrane problem in the plane. We prove the uniqueness of blow-ups, and that the free boundaries are $C^{1,\log}$-curves near a regular intersection point.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

We establish the $C^{1+\gamma}$-H\"older regularity of the regular free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplace operator with drift in the subcritical regime. Our method of the proof consists in proving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We develop an existence and regularity theory for a class of degenerate one-phase free boundary problems. In this way we unify the basic theories in free boundary problems like the classical one-phase problem, the obstacle problem, or more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We study the free boundary regularity of the traveling wave solutions to a degenerate advection-diffusion problem of Porous Medium type, whose existence was proved in \cite{MonsaingonNovikovRoquejoffre}. We set up a finite difference scheme…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Léonard Monsaingeon

The main result of this paper is to prove that viscosity solutions to a parabolic free boundary problem with variable coefficients are Lipschitz continuous under the assumptions that the solution has a Lipschitz free boundary and satisfies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing

We discuss the extent to which solutions to one-phase free boundary problems can be characterized according to their topological complexity. Our questions are motivated by fundamental work of Luis Caffarelli on free boundaries and by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-04 David S. Jerison , Nikola Kamburov

This paper is concerned with the study of the behavior of the free boundary for a class of solutions to a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with mixed periodic-Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown that if the free boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Giovanni Gravina , Giovanni Leoni

In this note we discuss the (higher) regularity properties of the Signorini problem for the homogeneous, isotropic Lam\'e system. Relying on an observation by Schumann \cite{Schumann1}, we reduce the question of the solution's and the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

The aim of this paper is to prove $\Gamma^{1,\alpha}$ Schauder estimates near a $C^{1,\alpha}$ non-characteristic portion of the boundary for $\Gamma^{0, \alpha}$ perturbations of horizontal Laplaceans in Carnot groups. This situation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Agnid Banerjee , Nicola Garofalo , Isidro Munive

In this article, we establish global regularity results ($ C^{0,\gamma}$, $ C^{0,1} $ and $ C^{1}$ estimates) for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear equation on $ C^{2} $-domain. This corresponds to the boundary counterpart of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Jiangwen Wang , Feida Jiang

We consider an elliptic-parabolic free boundary problem that models the fluid flow through a partially saturated porous medium. The free boundary arises as the interface separating the saturated and unsaturated regions. Our main goal is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Dennis Kriventsov , María Soria-Carro

We study higher critical points of the variational functional associated with a free boundary problem related to plasma confinement. Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have already been studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-05 David Jerison , Kanishka Perera

We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yash Jhaveri , Robin Neumayer

In this work we demonstrate that a class of some one and two phase free boundary problems can be recast as nonlocal parabolic equations on a submanifold. The canonical examples would be one-phase Hele Shaw flow, as well as its two-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Hector A. Chang-Lara , Nestor Guillen , Russell W. Schwab

We study classical solutions to the one-phase free boundary problem in which the free boundary consists of smooth curves and the components of the positive phase are simply-connected. We show that if two components of the free boundary are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-24 David Jerison , Nikola Kamburov

We prove that minimizers and almost minimizers of one-phase free boundary energy functionals in periodic media satisfy large scale (1) Lipschitz estimates (2) free boundary flat implies Lipschitz estimates. The proofs are based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 William M Feldman

In non-variational two-phase free boundary problems for harmonic measure, we examine how the relationship between the interior and exterior harmonic measures of a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ influences the geometry of its boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Matthew Badger , Max Engelstein , Tatiana Toro

We establish a prior interior $C^{1,1}$ estimates for convex solutions and supercritical phase solutions to the Lagrangian mean curvature equation with sharp Lipschitz phase. Counter-examples exist when the phase is H\"{o}lder continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Xingchen Zhou

We study two phase problems posed over a two dimensional cone generated by a smooth curve $\gamma$ on the unit sphere. We show that when $length(\gamma)<2\pi$ the free boundary avoids the vertex of the cone. When $length(\gamma) \geq 2\pi$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-28 Mark Allen , Hector Chang Lara

This paper is devoted to investigating the interior $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of viscosity solutions to the nonlocal double phase equations $$ \int_{\mathbb{R}^d}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Yuzhou Fang , Chao Zhang