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We study the regularity of the free boundary in the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^1$ near regular points.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

In this article we investigate the higher regularity properties of the regular free boundary in the fractional thin obstacle problem. Relying on a Hodograph-Legendre transform, we show that for smooth or analytic obstacles the regular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this work, we investigate the continuity of the free boundary in a class of elliptic problems, with Neuman boundary condition. The main idea is a change of variable that allows us to reduce the problem to the one studied in [14].

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Abdeslem Lyaghfouri , Abderachid Saadi

In this work we present a general introduction to the Signorini problem (or thin obstacle problem). It is a self-contained survey that aims to cover the main currently known results regarding the thin obstacle problem. We present the theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Xavier Fernández-Real

This is an introduction to The Theme Issue on "Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics", which consists of 14 survey/review articles on the topics, of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Physical, Mathematical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Gui-Qiang Chen , Henrik Shahgholian , Juan-Luis Vazquez

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan

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 study the higher regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems for integro-differential operators. Our main result establishes that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. This completes the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Nicola Abatangelo , 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

We study the higher regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems for integro-differential operators with drift, like $(-\Delta)^s +b\cdot\nabla$, in the subcritical regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. Our main result states that once the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Teo Kukuljan

Despite significant recent advances in the regularity theory for obstacle problems with integro-differential operators, some fundamental questions remained open. On the one hand, there was a lack of understanding of parabolic problems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We establish the $C^{1+\gamma}$-H\"older regularity of the regular free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplace operator with drift in the subcritical regime. Our method of the proof consists in proving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We develop an existence and regularity theory for a class of degenerate one-phase free boundary problems. In this way we unify the basic theories in free boundary problems like the classical one-phase problem, the obstacle problem, or more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We present a number of results inspired by the approach developed in a recent work by A. Figalli and J. Serra on the fine structure of the obstacle problem, which turns out to be partially effective in addressing the no-sign obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Seongmin Jeon , Henrik Shahgholian

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 non-transversal intersection of the free and fixed boundary is shown to hold in any dimension for obstacle problems generated by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators. Moreover, $C^1$ regularity results of the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Emanuel Indrei

We examine boundary regularity for a fully nonlinear free transmission problem. We argue using approximation methods, comparing the operators driving the problem with a limiting profile. Working natural conditions on the data of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 David Jesus , Edgard A. Pimentel , David Stolnicki

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of $W^{2,p}$ ($n<p<\infty$) solutions of a double obstacle problem with $C^{1,1}$ obstacle functions. Moreover, we show the optimal regularity of the solution and the local $C^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park

In this paper we study the higher regularity of the free boundary for the elliptic Signorini problem. By using a partial hodograph-Legendre transformation we show that the regular part of the free boundary is real analytic. The first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Herbert Koch , Arshak Petrosyan , Wenhui Shi