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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

This paper is devoted to a complete characterization of the free boundary of all solutions to the following spectral $k$-partition problem with measure and inclusion constraints: \[ \inf \left\{\sum_{i=1}^k \lambda_1(\omega_i)\; : \;…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Dario Mazzoleni , Makson S. Santos , Hugo Tavares

In this paper, we study the regularity of the "regular" part of the free boundary for almost minimizers in the parabolic Signorini problem with zero thin obstacle. This work is a continuation of our earlier research on the regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Seongmin Jeon , Arshak Petrosyan

In this paper we describe invariant geometrical ~structures in the phase space of the Swift-Hohenberg equation in a neighborhood of its periodic stationary states. We show that in spite of the fact that these states are only marginally…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 J. -P. Eckmann , C. E. Wayne , P. Wittwer

The classical Stefan problem is one of the most studied free boundary problems of evolution type. Recently, there has been interest in treating the corresponding free boundary problem with nonlocal diffusion. We start the paper by reviewing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Juan Luis Vázquez

We consider the stationary Boltzmann equation with the angular cutoff cross section in a bounded convex domain under the incoming boundary condition. In this article, we discuss the fractional Sobolev regularity of the solution without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Daisuke Kawagoe

We start the investigation of free boundary variational models featuring varying singularities. The theory depends strongly on the nature of the singular power $\gamma(x)$ and how it changes. Under a mild continuity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Damião Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

This paper investigates the regularity of solutions and structural properties of the free boundary for a class of fourth-order elliptic problems with Neumann-type boundary conditions. The singular and degenerate elliptic operators studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Donatella Danielli , Giovanni Gravina

We investigate existence and nonexistence of stationary stable nonconstant solutions, i.e. patterns, of semilinear parabolic problems in bounded domains of Riemannian manifolds satisfying Robin boundary conditions. These problems arise in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Catherine Bandle , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

We study the obstacle problem for parabolic operators of the type $\partial_t + L$, where $L$ is an elliptic integro-differential operator of order $2s$, such as $(-\Delta)^s$, in the supercritical regime $s \in (0,{1/2})$. The best result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

We study a two-phase free boundary problem in which the two-phases satisfy an impenetrability condition. Precisely, we have two ordered positive functions, which are harmonic in their supports, satisfy a Bernoulli condition on the one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this note we discuss the (higher) regularity properties of the Signorini problem for the homogeneous, isotropic Lam\'e system. Relying on an observation by Schumann \cite{Schumann1}, we reduce the question of the solution's and the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

The non-transversal intersection of the free boundary with the fixed boundary is obtained for nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators when $\Omega = \{\nabla u \neq 0\} \cap \{x_n>0\}$ thereby solving a problem in elliptic theory that in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Emanuel Indrei

Variational inequalities with thin obstacles and Signorini-type boundary conditions are classical problems in the calculus of variations, arising in numerous applications. In the linear case many refined results are known, while in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Luca Di Fazio , Emanuele Spadaro

This paper studies periodic traveling gravity waves at the free surface of water in a flow of constant vorticity over a flat bed. Using conformal mappings the free-boundary problem is transformed into a quasilinear pseudodifferential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Adrian Constantin , Eugen Varvaruca

In this paper, we explore cooperative and competitive coupled obstacle systems, which, up to now, are new type obstacle systems and formed by coupling two equations belonging to classical obstacle problem. On one hand, applying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Lili Du , Xu Tang , Cong Wang

We study boundary regularity of maps from two-dimensional domains into manifolds which are critical with respect to a generic conformally invariant variational functional and which, at the boundary, enter perpendicularly into a support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Armin Schikorra

We establish that the $C^{1,\gamma}$ regularity theory for translation invariant fractional order parabolic integro-differential equations (via Krylov-Safonov estimates) gives an improvement of regularity mechanism for solutions to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Farhan Abedin , Russell W. Schwab

We study the obstacle problem associated with the Kolmogorov operator $\Delta_v - \partial_t - v\cdot\nabla_x$, which arises from the theory of optimal control in Asian-American options pricing models. Our first main contribution is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 David Bowman

We prove well-posedness results for the solution to an initial and boundary-value problem for an Allen-Cahn type equation describing the phenomenon of phase transitions for a material contained in a bounded and regular domain. The dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Luca Calatroni , Pierluigi Colli