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We prove the -- to the best knowledge of the authors -- first result on the fine asymptotic behavior of the regular part of the free boundary of the obstacle problem close to singularities. The result is motivated by our recent partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Simon Eberle , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg Sebastian Weiss

We investigate classical solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations with two classes of dynamical boundary conditions, of reactive and reactive-diffusive type. In the latter case it is shown that well-posedness is to a large extent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Ciprian G. Gal , Martin Meyries

We prove existence of strong solutions to a family of some semilinear parabolic free boundary problems by means of elliptic regularization. Existence of solutions is obtained in two steps: we first show some uniform energy estimates and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Alessandro Audrito , Tomás Sanz-Perela

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

We study certain obstacle type problems involving standard and nonlocal minimal surfaces. We obtain optimal regularity of the solution and a characterization of the free boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-12 L. Caffarelli , D. De Silva , O. Savin

We consider a nonlinear Neumann problem, with periodic oscillation in the elliptic operator and on the boundary condition. Our focus is on problems posed in half-spaces, but with general normal directions that may not be parallel to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Sunhi Choi , Inwon Kim

We study the Signorini problem near a fixed boundary, where the solution is "clamped down" or "glued." We show that in general the solutions are at least $C^{1/2}$ regular and that this regularity is sharp. We prove that near the actual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Norayr Matevosyan , Arshak Petrosyan

We prove that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of two-phase free boundary problems governed by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators and with non-zero right hand side are $C^{1,\gamma}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

The present paper establishes a certain duality between the Dirichlet and Regularity problems for elliptic operators with $t$-independent complex bounded measurable coefficients ($t$ being the transversal direction to the boundary). To be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Steve Hofmann , Carlos Kenig , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ (and more general integro-differential operators) in the regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. We prove that once the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Teo Kukuljan

We explore regularity properties of solutions to a two-phase elliptic free boundary problem near a Neumann fixed boundary in two dimensions. Consider a function u, which is harmonic where it is not zero and satisfies a gradient jump…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Sarah Raynor , John A. Gemmer , Gary Moon

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

We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yash Jhaveri , Robin Neumayer

We establish the existence, uniqueness, and $W^{1,2,p}$-regularity of solutions to fully-nonlinear, parabolic obstacle problems when the obstacle is the pointwise supremum of functions in $W^{1,2,p}$ and the nonlinear operator is required…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Théo Durandard , Bruno Strulovici

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

In this manuscript we prove quantitative homogenization results for the obstacle problem with bounded measurable coefficients. As a consequence, large-scale regularity results both for the solution and the free boundary for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Gohar Aleksanyan , Tuomo Kuusi

In this paper, we establish $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity upto the boundary for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. Our main result Theorem 2.1 constitutes the boundary analogue of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Agnid Banerjee , Ram Baran Verma

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear free boundary problem $$ {{array}{ll} F(D^2u)=1 & \text{a.e. in}B_1 \cap \Omega |D^2 u| \leq K & \text{a.e. in}B_1\setminus\Omega, {array}. $$ where $K>0$, and $\Omega$ is an unknown open set. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-01 A. Figalli , H. Shahgholian

We prove the existence and $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions to nonlocal fully nonlinear elliptic equations with gradient constraints. We do not assume any regularity about the constraints; so the constraints need not be $C^1$ or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Mohammad Safdari

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