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We study an inhomogeneous minimization problems associated to the $p(x)$-Laplacian. We make a thorough analysis of the essential properties of their minimizers and we establish a relationship with a suitable free boundary problem. On the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Claudia Lederman , Noemi Wolanski

In this work we establish the optimal Lipschitz regularity for non-negative almost minimizers of the one-phase Bernoulli-type functional $$ \mathcal{J}_{\mathrm{G}}(u,\Omega) := \int_\Omega \left(\mathrm{G}(|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 João Vitor da Silva , Analía Silva , Hernán Vivas

We consider almost minimizers to the one-phase energy functional and we prove their optimal Lipschitz regularity and partial regularity of their free boundary. These results were recently obtained by David and Toro, and David, Engelstein,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

For a given constant $\lambda > 0$ and a bounded Lipschitz domain $D \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n \geq 2$), we establish that almost-minimizers of the functional $$ J(\mathbf{v}; D) = \int_D \sum_{i=1}^{m} \left|\nabla v_i(x) \right|^p+…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Masoud Bayrami , Morteza Fotouhi , Henrik Shahgholian

This paper concerns almost minimizers of the functional $$ J(v,\Omega) = \int_\Omega \left( |D v^+|^p + |D v^-|^q \right) dx, $$ where $1<p \neq q< \infty$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$. We prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{p(x)}+ \lambda \chi_{\{u>0\}} dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$ with $u-\phi_0\in W_0^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$, for a given $\phi_0\geq 0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-19 Julián Fernández Bonder , Sandra Martínez , Noemi Wolanski

In [David-Toro 15] and [David-Engelstein-Toro 19], (some of) the authors studied almost minimizers for functionals of the type first studied by Alt and Caffarelli in [Alt-Caffarelli 81] and Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Guy David , Max Engelstein , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia , Tatiana Toro

We construct a monotonicity formula for a class of free boundary problems associated with the stationary points of the functional \[ J(u)=\int_\Omega F(|\nabla u|^2)+\mbox{meas}(\{u>0\}\cap \Omega), \] where $F$ is a density function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Aram Karakhanyan

In this paper we study the two-phase Bernoulli type free boundary problem arising from the minimization of the functional $$ J(u):=\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^p +\lambda_+^p\,\chi_{\{u>0\}} +\lambda_-^p\,\chi_{\{u\le 0\}}, \quad 1<p<\infty. $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Serena Dipierro , Aram L. Karakhanyan

We study optimal regularity and free boundary for minimizers of an energy functional arising in cohesive zone models for fracture mechanics. Under smoothness assumptions on the boundary conditions and on the fracture energy density, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Luis Caffarelli , Filippo Cagnetti , Alessio Figalli

This paper studies regularity of perimiter quasiminimizing sets in metric measure spaces with a doubling measure and a Poincare inequality. The main result shows that the measure theoretic boundary of a quasiminimizing set coincides with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Juha Kinnunen , Riikka Korte , Andrew Lorent , Nageswari Shanmugalingam

We consider the "thin one-phase" free boundary problem, associated to minimizing a weighted Dirichlet energy of the function in $\mathbb R^{n+1}_+$ plus the area of the positivity set of that function in $\mathbb R^n$. We establish full…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Max Engelstein , Aapo Kauranen , Martí Prats , Georgios Sakellaris , Yannick Sire

We study almost minimizers for the thin obstacle problem with variable H\"older continuous coefficients and zero thin obstacle and establish their $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity on the either side of the thin space. Under an additional assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We prove {the first} regularity theorem for the free boundary of solutions to shape optimization problems involving integral functionals, for which the energy of a domain $\Omega$ is obtained as the integral of a cost function $j(u,x)$…

We provide a rather complete description of the sharp regularity theory for a family of heterogeneous, two-phase variational free boundary problems, $\mathcal{J}_\gamma \to $ min, ruled by nonlinear, $p$-degenerate elliptic operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Raimundo Leitão , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We develop the free boundary regularity for nonnegative minimizers of the Alt-Phillips functional for negative power potentials $$\int_\Omega \left(\frac 1 2 |\nabla u|^2 + u^{\gamma} \chi_{\{u>0\}}\right) \, dx, \quad \quad \gamma \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary for a vector-valued Bernoulli problem, with no sign assumptions on the boundary data. More precisely, given an open, smooth set of finite measure $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Dario Mazzoleni , Susanna Terracini , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper, we investigate the borderline regularity of local minimizers of energy functionals under minimal assumptions on the potential term $\sigma$. When $\sigma$ is merely bounded and measurable, we show that sign-changing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Damião J. Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

In this paper we consider the fully nonlinear parabolic free boundary problem $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} F(D^2u) -\partial_t u=1 & \text{a.e. in}Q_1 \cap \Omega\\ |D^2 u| + |\partial_t u| \leq K & \text{a.e. in}Q_1\setminus\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Alessio Figalli , Henrik Shahgholian

We consider fully nonlinear obstacle-type problems of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} F(D^{2}u,x)=f(x) & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\cap\Omega,|D^{2}u|\le K & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Emanuel Indrei , Andreas Minne