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We present a way to study a wide class of optimal design problems with a perimeter penalization. More precisely, we address existence and regularity properties of saddle points of energies of the form $$ (u,A) \quad \mapsto \quad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Adolfo Arroyo-Rabasa

In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Donatella Danielli , Alaa Haj Ali , Arshak Petrosyan

This paper is concerned with the Neumann initial-boundary value problem for the two-species chemotaxis system with consumption of chemoattractant \begin{equation*} u_t=\Delta u-\chi_1\nabla\cdot(u\nabla w), \end{equation*} \begin{equation*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Qingshan Zhang , Weirun Tao

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem $$ \mathrm{min}\left\{\lambda_1^s(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_m^s(\Omega) + \Lambda \mathcal{L}_n(\Omega)\colon \Omega\subset D \mbox{ s-quasi-open}\right\} $$ where $\Lambda>0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Giorgio Tortone

This paper investigates a class of $p$-obstacle problems with subcritical exponents having the form \begin{align} \mathrm{div}\left( a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right) =m_1\chi_{\{u>0\}}-m_2u^{\lambda-1}\chi_{\{u>0\}} \ \text{in}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jing Yu , Jun Zheng

In this note we study the boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal Dirichlet problems of the form $Lu=0$ in $\Omega$, $u=g$ in $\mathbb R^N\setminus\Omega$, in non-smooth domains $\Omega$. When $g$ is smooth enough, then it is easy to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Alessandro Audrito , Xavier Ros-Oton

We establish a partial $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result for minimizers of the optimal $p$-compliance problem with length penalization in any spatial dimension $N\geq 2$, extending some of the results obtained in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Bohdan Bulanyi

Despite significant recent advances in the regularity theory for obstacle problems with integro-differential operators, some fundamental questions remained open. On the one hand, there was a lack of understanding of parabolic problems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

The theory of boundary regularity for $p$-harmonic functions is extended to unbounded open sets in complete metric spaces with a doubling measure supporting a $p$-Poincar\'e inequality, $1<p<\infty$. The barrier classification of regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Anders Björn , Daniel Hansevi

We investigate the following mixed local and nonlocal quasilinear equation with singularity given by \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{split} -\Delta_pu+(-\Delta)_q^s u&=\frac{f(x)}{u^{\delta}}\text { in } \Omega, \\u&>0 \text{ in } \Omega,\\u&=0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Kaushik Bal , Stuti Das

We study the regularity of the extremal solution $u^*$ to the singular reaction-diffusion problem $-\Delta_p u = \lambda f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u =0$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $1<p<2$, $0 < \lambda < \lambda^*$, $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Daniele Castorina

We study regularity issues for systems of elliptic equations of the type \[ -\Delta u_i=f_{i,\beta}(x)-\beta \sum_{j\neq i} a_{ij} u_i |u_i|^{p-1}|u_j|^{p+1} \] set in domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, for $N \geq 1$. The paper is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Nicola Soave , Hugo Tavares , Susanna Terracini , Alessandro Zilio

We develop further the strategy implemented in our series of papers on inhomogeneous two-phase fee boundary problems, to show that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of such problems are locally $C^{2,\gamma }.$

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Daniela De Silva , Fausto Ferrari , Sandro Salsa

We prove a regularity theorem for the free boundary of minimizers of the two-phase Bernoulli problem, completing the analysis started by Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman in the 80s. As a consequence, we also show regularity of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Guido De Philippis , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We establish sharp interior and boundary regularity estimates for solutions to $\partial_t u - L u = f(t, x)$ in $I\times \Omega$, with $I \subset \mathbb{R}$ and $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^n$. The operators $L$ we consider are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear elliptic operators with an anisotropic degeneracy on the gradient: \[ \min \left\{f-|Du|^\gamma F(D^2u),u-\phi\right\} = 0 \quad\textrm{ in }\quad \Omega. \] We obtain existence of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 João Vitor Da Silva , Hernán Vivas

In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for the system $\mbox{div}(\sigma(u)\nabla\varphi)=0,\ \ u_t-\Delta u=\sigma(u)|\nabla\varphi|^2$. This problem is known as the thermistor problem which models the electrical heating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Xiangsheng Xu

In this paper we obtain rigidity results for bounded positive solutions of the general capillary overdetermined problem \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array} {ll} \mathrm{div} \left(\frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla u|^2}}\right) + f(u) = 0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Yuanyuan Lian , Pieralberto Sicbaldi

We study the regularity and comparison principle for a gradient degenerate Neumann problem. The problem is a generalization of the Signorini or thin obstacle problem which appears in the study of certain singular anisotropic free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 William Feldman , Zhonggan Huang

In general, solutions $u$ to \[ \Delta u(\mathbf{x})=f(\mathbf{x})\chi_{\{u>\psi\}} \] are not $C^{1,1}$, even for $f$ smooth and $\psi(\mathbf{x})\equiv0$. Points around which $u$ is not $C^{1,1}$ are called singular points, and the set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Andreas Minne