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A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We establish sharp upper and lower bounds for the number of rational points of bounded anticanonical height on a smooth bihomogeneous threefold defined over Q and of bidegree (1, 2). These bounds are in agreement with Manin's conjecture.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Pierre Le Boudec

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 study the free boundary of the porous medium equation with nonlocal drifts in dimension one. Under the assumption that the initial data has super-quadratic growth at the free boundary, we show that the solution is smooth in space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yuming Paul Zhang

We show that invariant submanifolds with boundary, and more generally with corners which are normally expanded by an endomorphism are persistent as $a$-regular stratifications. This result will be shown in class $C^s$, for $s\ge 1$. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Pierre Berger

We study the singular part of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian, \ $\min\bigl\{(-\Delta)^su,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, for general obstacles $\varphi$. Our main result establishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Nicola Garofalo , Xavier Ros-Oton

We adapt the method of Simon [JDG '93] to prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity theorem for minimal varifolds which resemble a cone $\bf{C}_0^2$ over an equiangular geodesic net. For varifold classes admitting a "no-hole" condition on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Maria Colombo , Nick Edelen , Luca Spolaor

Let $u$ be a solution to the normalized p-harmonic obstacle problem with $p>2$. That is, $u\in W^{1,p}(B_1(0))$, $2<p<\infty$, $u\ge 0$ and $$ \d\left( |\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right)=\chi_{\{u>0\}}\textrm{ in }B_1(0) $$ where $u(x)\ge 0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 John Andersson

We study the higher regularity of solutions and free boundaries in the Alt-Phillips problem $\Delta u=u^{\gamma-1}$, with $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Our main results imply that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Daniel Restrepo , Xavier Ros-Oton

We obtain a new bound on the number of two-rich points spanned by an arrangement of low degree algebraic curves in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Specifically, we show that an arrangement of $n$ algebraic curves determines at most $C_\epsilon…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-19 Larry Guth , Joshua Zahl

We show that there exist closed three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds where the incompressible Euler equations exhibit smooth steady solutions that are isolated in the $C^1$-topology. The proof of this fact combines ideas from dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Alberto Enciso , Willi Kepplinger , Daniel Peralta-Salas

A long-standing conjecture of De Giorgi asserts that every monotone solution of the Allen--Cahn equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) is one-dimensional if \(n \leq 7\). A stronger version of the conjecture, also widely studied and often called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Hardy Chan , Xavier Fernández-Real , Alessio Figalli , Joaquim Serra

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

A free boundary problem arising from materials science is studied in one-dimensional case. The problem studied here is an obstacle problem for the non-convex energy consisting of a bending energy, tension and an adhesion energy. If the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Tatsuya Miura

We consider the Bernoulli one-phase free boundary problem in a domain $\Omega$ and show that the free boundary $F$ is $C^{1,1/2}$ regular in a neighborhood of the fixed boundary $\partial \Omega$. We achieve this by relating the behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Hector Chang-Lara , Ovidiu Savin

In this paper we study the singular set in the parabolic obstacle problem for general obstacles $\varphi \in C^{2,1}$. We prove that the singular set has parabolic Hausdorff dimension at most $n-1$. Prior to our result, this was only known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Alejandro Martínez , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study a family of gradient obstacle problems on a compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that the solutions of these free boundary problems are uniformly semiconcave and, as a consequence, we obtain some fine convergence results for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-15 François Générau , Edouard Oudet , Bozhidar Velichkov

We formulate a conjecture on the behavior of the minimal free resolutions of sets of general points on arbitrary varieties embedded by complete linear series, in analogy with the well-known Minimal Resolution Conjecture for points in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gavril Farkas , Mircea Mustata , Mihnea Popa

We investigate singular and degenerate behavior of solutions of the unstable free boundary problem $$\Delta u = -\chi_{\{u>0\}} .$$ First, we construct a solution that is not of class $C^{1,1}$ and whose free boundary consists of four arcs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Andersson , G. S. Weiss

We construct non-flat minimal capillary cones with bi-orthogonal symmetry groups for any dimension and contact angle. These cones interpolate between rescalings of a singular solution to the one-phase problem and the free-boundary cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Benjy Firester , Raphael Tsiamis , Yipeng Wang