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We investigate a fully nonlinear two-phase free boundary problem with a Neumann boundary condition on the boundary of a general convex set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with corners. We show that the interior regularity theory developed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Thomas Beck , Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

In this article we study for the first time the regularity of the free boundary in the one-phase free boundary problem driven by a general nonlocal operator. Our main results establish that the free boundary is $C^{1,\alpha}$ near regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

We study a shape optimization problem associated with the first eigenvalue of a nonlinear spectral problem involving a mixed operator ($p-$Laplacian and Laplacian) with a constraint on the volume. First, we prove the existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Rocard Michel Gouton , Aboubacar Marcos , Diaraf Seck

In this paper we study the regularity of the optimal sets for the shape optimization problem \[ \min\Big\{\lambda_1(\Omega)+\dots+\lambda_k(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d,\ \text{open}\ ,\ |\Omega|=1\Big\}, \] where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Dario Mazzoleni , Susanna Terracini , Bozhidar Velichkov

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem with variable coefficients and non-zero right hand side. We prove that flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$ using a different approach than the classical supconvolution method of Caffarelli.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-11 Daniela De Silva

The regularity of the free boundary in optimal transportation is equivalent to that of the potential function along the free boundary. By establishing new geometric estimates of the free boundary and studying the second boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shibing Chen , Jiakun Liu , Xu-Jia Wang

We study the problem of minimizing the second Dirichlet eigenvalue for the Laplacian operator among sets of given perimeter. In two dimensions, we prove that the optimum exists, is convex, regular, and its boundary contains exactly two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Antoine Henrot

In this paper, we establish global $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity for bounded generalized solutions of elliptic equations in divergence form with Musielak-Orlicz growth and subject to Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. In fact, our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Hlel Missaoui

This paper is dedicated to the spectral optimization problem $$ \mathrm{min}\left\{\lambda_1^s(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_m^s(\Omega) + \Lambda \mathcal{L}_n(\Omega)\colon \Omega\subset D \mbox{ s-quasi-open}\right\} $$ where $\Lambda>0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Giorgio Tortone

We prove Lipschitz continuity of solutions to a class of rather general two-phase anisotropic free boundary problems in 2D and we classify global solutions. As a consequence, we obtain $C^{2,1}$ regularity of solutions to the Bellman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Luis Caffarelli , Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem governed by doubly degenerate fully non-linear elliptic PDEs with non-zero right hand side, which should be understood as an analog (non-variational) of certain double phase functionals in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-04 João Vítor da Silva , Giane C. Rampasso , Gleydson C. Ricarte , Hernán A. Vivas

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

In this work, we study regularity properties for nonvariational singular elliptic equations ruled by the infinity Laplacian. We obtain optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity along the free boundary. We also show existence of solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Damião J. Araújo , Ginaldo de Santana Sá

We provide regularity results at the boundary for continuous viscosity solutions to nonconvex fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations and inequalities in Euclidian domains. We show that (i) any solution of two sided inequalities with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Luis Silvestre , Boyan Sirakov

For the Alt-Caffarelli problem, we study free boundary regularity of energy minimizers. In six dimensions, we show that free boundaries are analytic for generic boundary data. In general, we improve previous generic Hausdorff dimensions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

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

We study a higher order version of the Alt-Caffarelli problem in two dimensions, where the Dirichlet energy is replaced by an anisotropic bending energy. This extends a previous study of the isotropic case in [41]. It turns out that smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marius Müller

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

We establish a partial $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result for minimizers of the optimal $p$-compliance problem with length penalization in any spatial dimension $N\geq 2$, extending some of the results obtained in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Bohdan Bulanyi

We develop further the strategy implemented in our series of papers on inhomogeneous two-phase fee boundary problems, to show that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of such problems are locally $C^{2,\gamma }.$

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Daniela De Silva , Fausto Ferrari , Sandro Salsa