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We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $\min\bigl\{-\Delta_p u,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here, $\Delta_p u=\textrm{div}\bigl(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Alessio Figalli , Brian Krummel , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper, we prove local $C^{1}$ regularity of free boundaries for the double obstacle problem with an upper obstacle $\psi$, \begin{align*} \Delta u &=f\chi_{\Omega(u) \cap\{ u< \psi\} }+ \Delta \psi \chi_{\Omega(u)\cap \{u=\psi\}},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park , Henrik Shahgholian

In this article, we study nonlinear nonlocal equations with coercive gradient nonlinearity of the form \[ (-\Delta_p)^s u(x) + H(x, \nabla u) = f, \] where $f$ is Lipschitz continuous. We show that any viscosity solution $u$ is locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Anup Biswas , Aniket Sen , Erwin Topp

Consider the Dirichlet problem with respect to an elliptic operator \[ A = - \sum_{k,l=1}^d \partial_k \, a_{kl} \, \partial_l - \sum_{k=1}^d \partial_k \, b_k + \sum_{k=1}^d c_k \, \partial_k + c_0 \] on a bounded Wiener regular open set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 W. Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst

In this paper we consider the fully nonlinear parabolic free boundary problem $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} F(D^2u) -\partial_t u=1 & \text{a.e. in}Q_1 \cap \Omega\\ |D^2 u| + |\partial_t u| \leq K & \text{a.e. in}Q_1\setminus\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Alessio Figalli , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper we discuss the obstacle problem for the $p$-Laplace operator. We prove optimal growth results for the solution. Of particular interest is the point-wise regularity of the solution at free boundary points. The most surprising…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 John Andersson , Erik Lindgren , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper, we study the existence, nonexistence and multiplicity of positive solutions to the problem given by \begin{equation*} \label{1} \left\{\begin{split} \mathcal{L}u\: &= \lambda u^{q} + u^{p}, \quad u>0 ~~ \text{in} ~\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Tuhina Mukherjee , Lovelesh Sharma

We establish the comparison principle, existence and regularity of viscosity solutions to the following problem concerning the mixed operator: \begin{align} \begin{cases}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Priyank Oza , Jagmohan Tyagi

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For $\epsilon>0$ small, we construct non-constant solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations $-\Delta u=\frac{1}{\epsilon^2}(1-|u|^2)u$ in $\Omega$ such that on $\partial \Omega$ u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Rémy Rodiac

We prove the existence and $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions to nonlocal fully nonlinear elliptic double obstacle problems. We also obtain boundary regularity for these problems. The obstacles are assumed to be Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Mohammad Safdari

In this paper, we obtain the asymptotic behavior at infinity for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations in exterior domains. We show that if the solution $u$ grows linearly, there exists a linear polynomial $P$ such that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Lian Yuanyuan , Zhang Kai

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 consider periodic soft inclusions $T_{\epsilon}$ with periodicity $\epsilon$, where the solution, $u_{\epsilon}$, satisfies semi-linear elliptic equations of non-divergence in $\Omega_{\epsilon}=\Omega\setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Ki-ahm Lee , Minha Yoo

We perform a complete analysis of the limiting behaviour of a class of quasilinear problems with Dirichlet boundary data g. We show that the Lipschitz constant of g plays a role in controlling the Gamma-convergence of the natural energies.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Yuanlong Ruan

In this paper, we study the boundary regularity for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. We use a unified, simple method to prove that if the domain $\Omega$ satisfies the exterior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ condition at…

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

Consider the inverse first-passage problem: Given a diffusion process $\{\frak{X}_{t}\}_{t\geqslant 0}$ on a probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\mathbb{P})$ and a survival probability function $p$ on $[0,\infty)$, find a boundary,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Xinfu Chen , John Chadam , David Saunders

This paper studies the regularity of the free boundary for viscosity solutions to a parabolic Bernoulli-type free boundary problem with variable coefficients. The main result is that Lipschitz free boundaries are $C^1$ with a normal vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing

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

In this paper we are concerned with higher regularity properties of the elliptic system \[ \Delta\mathbf{u}= |\mathbf{u}|^{q-1}\mathbf{u}\chi_{\{|\mathbf{u}|>0\}},\qquad\mathbf{u}=(u^1,\dots,u^m) \] for $0\leq q<1$. We show analyticity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Morteza Fotouhi , Herbert Koch

The main result of this paper is to prove that viscosity solutions to a parabolic free boundary problem with variable coefficients are Lipschitz continuous under the assumptions that the solution has a Lipschitz free boundary and satisfies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing