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We study the interior Bernoulli free boundary problem for the infinity Laplacian. Our results cover existence, uniqueness, and characterization of solutions (above a threshold representing the "infinity Bernoulli constant"), their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Graziano Crasta , Ilaria Fragalà

In the class of the so called non-dynamic Fractional Obstacle Problems of parabolic type, it is shown how to obtain higher regularity as well as optimal regularity of the space derivatives of the solution. Furthermore, at free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Ioannis Athanasopoulos , Luis Caffarelli , Emmanouil Milakis

We establish an epsilon-regularity theorem at points in the free boundary of almost-minimizers of the energy $\mathrm{Per}_{w}(E)=\int_{\partial^*E}w\,\mathrm{d} {\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}$, where $w$ is a weight asymptotic to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Carlo Gasparetto , Filippo Paiano , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study the obstacle problem for integro-differential operators of order $2s$, with $s\in (0,1)$. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^{1,\gamma}$ and $u\in C^{1,s}$ near all regular points. Namely, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Luis Caffarelli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We consider H\"older continuous weak solutions $u\in C^\gamma(\Omega)$, $u\cdot n|_{\partial \Omega}=0$, of the incompressible Euler equations on a bounded and simply connected domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$. If $\Omega$ is of class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Luigi De Rosa , Mickaël Latocca , Giorgio Stefani

The interior free boundary theory for linear elliptic operators in higher dimensions was developed by Caffarelli in the low regularity context. In these notes, the up-to-the boundary free boundary regularity is discussed for nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Emanuel Indrei

We investigate a fully nonlinear two-phase free boundary problem with a Neumann boundary condition on the boundary of a general convex set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with corners. We show that the interior regularity theory developed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Thomas Beck , Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We prove under general assumptions that solutions of the thin obstacle or Signorini problem in any space dimension achieve the optimal regularity $C^{1,1/2}$. This improves the known optimal regularity results by allowing the thin obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Nestor Guillen

In this paper we study the local behavior of solutions to some free boundary problems. We relate the theory of quasi-conformal maps to the regularity of the solutions to nonlinear thin-obstacle problems; we prove that the contact set is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Guido De Philippis , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this article we establish fine results on the boundary behavior of solutions to nonlocal equations in $C^{k,\gamma}$ domains which satisfy local Neumann conditions on the boundary. Such solutions typically blow up at the boundary like $v…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of $C^{1,\alpha}$ submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Leobardo Rosales

We consider minimizers of the one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem in domains with analytic fixed boundary. In any dimension $d$, we prove that the branching set at the boundary has Hausdorff dimension at most $d-2$. As a consequence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Lorenzo Ferreri , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper, we study a free boundary problem for a class of parabolic-elliptic type chemotaxis model in high dimensional symmetry domain \Omega. By using the contraction mapping principle and operator semigroup approach, we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Hua Chen , Wenbin Lv , Shaohua Wu

We consider an oscillatory obstacle problem where the coincidence set and free boundary are also highly oscillatory. We establish a rate of convergence for a regularized notion of free boundary to the free boundary of a corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Farhan Abedin , William M Feldman

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

We introduce the nonlocal analogue of the classical free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in an open domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the (boundaries of) critical points of the fractional perimeter $\operatorname{Per}_s(\cdot,\,\Omega )$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Marco Badran , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, we prove the regularity of the free boundary in the Monge-Amp\`ere obstacle problem $\det D^2 v= f(y)\chi_{\{v>0\}}. $ By duality, the regularity of the free boundary is equivalent to that of the asymptotic cone of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Genggeng Huang , Lan Tang , Xu-Jia Wang

In this paper, we prove the boundary Lipschitz regularity and the Hopf Lemma by a unified method on Reifenberg domains for fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Precisely, if the domain $\Omega$ satisfies the exterior Reifenberg…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Yuanyuan Lian , Wenxiu Xu , Kai Zhang

In this paper, we study the boundary H\"older regularity for solutions to the fractional Dirichlet problem in unbounded domains with boundary \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^s u(x) = g(x),&\text{in } \Omega, u(x)=0, &\text{in }…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Yahong Guo , Congming Li , Yugao Ouyang

We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of $C^{1,\alpha}$ submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Leobardo Rosales