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This paper deals with the Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for a class of variational obstacle problems with possible occurance of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. In order to overcome this problem, the availment of the notions of relaxed…

We study global minimizers of biharmonic analogues of the Alt-Caffarelli functional. It turns out that half-space solutions are global minimizers for the two-sided Alt-Caffarelli functional, but not in the one-sided case. In addition, we…

We study a natural biharmonic analogue of the classical Alt-Caffarelli problem, both under Dirichlet and under Navier boundary conditions. We show existence, basic properties and $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity of minimisers. For the Navier…

We prove Besov boundary regularity for solutions of the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for fractional-order quasi-linear operators with variable coefficients on Lipschitz domains $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our estimates are consistent with…

We examine lower order perturbations of the harmonic map prob- lem from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{S}^2$ including chiral interaction in form of a helicity term that prefers modulation, and a potential term that enables decay to a uniform…

We prove that, given~$p>\max\left\{\frac{2n}{n+2},1\right\}$, the nonnegative almost minimizers of the nonlinear free boundary functional $$ J_p(u,\Omega):=\int_{\Omega}\Big( |\nabla u(x)|^p+\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x)\Big)\,dx$$ are Lipschitz…

The existence of minimizers in the fractional isoperimetric problem with multiple volume constraints is proved, together with a partial regularity result.

In this article, we consider and analyse a small variant of a functional originally introduced in \cite{BLS,LS} to approximate the (geometric) planar Steiner problem. This functional depends on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$ and…

This paper concerns almost minimizers of the functional $$ J(v,\Omega) = \int_\Omega \left( |D v^+|^p + |D v^-|^q \right) dx, $$ where $1<p \neq q< \infty$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 1$. We prove the…

In this paper we study the local regularity of almost minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x) \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in L^\infty(\Omega)$.…

We prove existence of weak solutions to the obstacle problem for semilinear wave equations (including the fractional case) by using a suitable approximating scheme in the spirit of minimizing movements. This extends the results in [9],…

We prove that minimizers and almost minimizers of one-phase free boundary energy functionals in periodic media satisfy large scale (1) Lipschitz estimates (2) free boundary flat implies Lipschitz estimates. The proofs are based on…

In this paper we firstly study the limit of minimizers of the fractional $W^{s,p}$-norms as $p\rightarrow+\infty$ in De Giorgi sense. In particular, we analyzed the $\Gamma$-convergence of non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary problem for…

In this paper we study the obstacle problems for the fractional Lapalcian of order $s\in(0,1)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, under mild assumptions on the data.

We study the existence and structure of branch points in two-phase free boundary problems. More precisely, we construct a family of minimizers to an Alt- Caffarelli-Friedman type functional whose free boundaries contain branch points in the…

We study minimizers of the functional $$ \int_{B_1^+}|\nabla u|^2 x_n^a\,d x +2\int_{B_1'} (\lambda_+ u^++\lambda_- u^-)\,d x', $$ for $a\in(-1,1)$. The problem arises in connection with heat flow with control on the boundary. It can also…

We review the finite element approximation of the classical obstacle problem in energy and max-norms and derive error estimates for both the solution and the free boundary. On the basis of recent regularity results we present an optimal…

This paper deals with the existence of asymptotic almost automorphic solution of fractional integro differential equation. We prove the result by using fixed point theorems. We show the result with Lipschitz condition and without Lipschitz…

In this paper we show that any increasing functional of the first k eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian admits a (quasi-)open minimizer among the subsets of R^N of unit measure. In particular, there exists such a minimizer which is…

We consider an optimal rearrangement minimization problem involving the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$, and Gagliardo-Nirenberg seminorm $|u|_s$. We prove the existence of the unique minimizer, analyze its properties as…