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We study for the first time a two-phase free boundary problem in which the solution satisfies a Robin boundary condition. We consider the case in which the solution is continuous across the free boundary and we prove an existence and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Serena Guarino Lo Bianco , Domenico Angelo La Manna , 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

We establish that the $C^{1,\gamma}$ regularity theory for translation invariant fractional order parabolic integro-differential equations (via Krylov-Safonov estimates) gives an improvement of regularity mechanism for solutions to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Farhan Abedin , Russell W. Schwab

For the two-phase membrane problem $ \Delta u = {\lambda_+\over 2} \chi_{\{u>0\}} - {\lambda_-\over 2} \chi_{\{u<0\}} ,$ where $\lambda_+> 0$ and $\lambda_->0 ,$ we prove in two dimensions that the free boundary is in a neighborhood of each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Henrik Shahgholian , Georg S. Weiss

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

This is the sequel of the recent work (Du, Huang, Pu, Commun. Math. Phys, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00220-023-04651-7) on axially symmetric gravity water waves with general vorticities, which has investigated the singular wave profile of the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Lili Du , Chunlei Yang

We study symmetry and quantitative approximate symmetry for an overdetermined problem involving the fractional torsion problem in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$. More precisely, we prove that if the fractional torsion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Giulio Ciraolo , Serena Dipierro , Giorgio Poggesi , Luigi Pollastro , Enrico Valdinoci

In this manuscript, we delve into the study of maps $u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega;\overline M)$ that minimize the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional $$ \int_\Omega (|Du|^2 + q^2 \chi_{u^{-1}(M)})\,dx, $$ under the condition that the image $u(\Omega)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Alessio Figalli , André Guerra , Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

We establish the boundary pointwise Lipschitz regularity on exterior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains and the Hopf lemma on interior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains for fully nonlinear parabolic equations by a unified perturbation method. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jiqi Dong , Xuemei Li , Yuanyuan Lian

We present in this paper a result about existence and convexity of solutions to a free boundary problem of Bernoulli type, with non constant gradient boundary constraint depending on the outer unit normal. In particular we prove that, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Chiara Bianchini

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

We study a model for combustion on a boundary. Specifically, we study certain generalized solutions of the equation \[ (-\Delta)^s u = \chi_{\{u>c\}} \] for $0<s<1$ and an arbitrary constant $c$. Our main object of study is the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Mark Allen , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We prove optimal regularity and derive several geometric properties for solutions of a free boundary problem with fractional diffusion. Additionally, we deduce local $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for the corresponding interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Diego Marcon , Rafayel Teymurazyan

For a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m, m\geq 2,$ of class $C^0$, the properties are studied of fields of `good directions', that is the directions with respect to which $\partial\Omega$ can be locally represented as the graph of a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 John M. Ball , Arghir Zarnescu

In this paper, we study superlinear systems that give rise to free boundaries. Such systems appear for example from the minimization of the energy functional $$ \int_{\Omega}\left(|\nabla\mathbf{u}|^2+\frac2p|\mathbf{u}|^p\right),\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daniela De Silva , Seongmin Jeon , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper, we study almost minimizers to a fractional Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman type functional. Our main results concern the optimal $C^{0,s}$ regularity of almost minimizers as well as the structure of the free boundary. We first prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Mark Allen , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

Given a Lipschitz domain $\Omega $ in ${\mathbb R} ^N $ and a nonnegative potential $V$ in $\Omega $ such that $V(x)\, d(x,\partial \Omega)^2$ is bounded in $\Omega $ we study the fine regularity of boundary points with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Ancona Alano

The boundary behaviour of solutions of stochastic PDEs with Dirichlet boundary conditions can be surprisingly - and in a sense, arbitrarily - bad: as shown by Krylov, for any $\alpha>0$ one can find a simple $1$-dimensional constant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Máté Gerencsér

We continue our study in \cite{FL} on viscosity solutions to a one-phase free boundary problem for the $p(x)$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side. We first prove that viscosity solutions are locally Lipschitz continuous, which is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

It is well known that minimizers of the Allen-Cahn-type functional \[ J_\epsilon(u):=\int_\Omega\frac{\epsilon|\nabla u|^2}{2}+\frac{W(u)}{\epsilon}, \] where $W$ is a double-well potential, resemble minimal surfaces in the sense that their…

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