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Consider the parabolic free boundary problem $$ \Delta u - \partial_t u = 0 \textrm{in} \{u>0\}, |\nabla u|=1 \textrm{on} \partial\{u>0\} . $$ For a realistic class of solutions, containing for example {\em all} limits of the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Andersson , G. S. Weiss

We prove the -- to the best knowledge of the authors -- first result on the fine asymptotic behavior of the regular part of the free boundary of the obstacle problem close to singularities. The result is motivated by our recent partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Simon Eberle , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg Sebastian Weiss

We study fully nonlinear singularly perturbed parabolic equations and their limits. We show that solutions are uniformly Lipschitz continuous in space and H\"{o}lder continuous in time. For the limiting free boundary problem, we analyse the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Gleydson C. Ricarte , Rafayel Teymurazyan , José Miguel Urbano

The free boundary for the Signorini problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is smooth outside of a degenerate set, which can have the same dimension ($n-1$) as the free boundary itself. In [FR21] it was shown that generically, the set where the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Xavier Fernández-Real , Clara Torres-Latorre

We present a variational framework for studying the existence and regularity of solutions to elliptic free boundary problems that do not necessarily minimize energy. As applications, we obtain mountain pass solutions of critical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Kanishka Perera

We give a comprehensive treatment of the parabolic Signorini problem based on a generalization of Almgren's monotonicity of the frequency. This includes the proof of the optimal regularity of solutions, classification of free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Donatella Danielli , Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Tung To

This paper investigates the initial boundary value problem of a finitely degenerate semilinear pseudo-parabolic equation associated with H\"{o}rmander's operator. Based on the global existence of solutions in previous literature, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xiang-kun Shao , Xue-song Li , Nan-jing Huang , Donal O'Regan

We discuss the global regularity of solutions $f$ to the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs in the hyperbolic space when the boundary of the domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ has a nonnegative mean curvature and prove an optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Qing Han , Weiming Shen , Yue Wang

A class of semi-bounded solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations satisfying either periodic or Dirichlet boundary conditions is examined. For smooth initial data, new blowup criteria in terms of the initial concavity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Alejandro Sarria

The present paper establishes a certain duality between the Dirichlet and Regularity problems for elliptic operators with $t$-independent complex bounded measurable coefficients ($t$ being the transversal direction to the boundary). To be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Steve Hofmann , Carlos Kenig , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

We analyze the local elliptic regularity of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ on an arbitrary bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. For $1<p<2$, we obtain regularity in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Umberto Biccari , Mahamadi Warma , Enrique Zuazua

In this article we use flatness improvement argument to study the regularity of the free boundary for the biharmonic obstacle problem with zero obstacle. Assuming that the solution is almost one-dimensional, and that the non-coincidence set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Gohar Aleksanyan

This work studies the regularity and the geometric significance of solution of the Cauchy problem for a degenerate parabolic equation $u_{t}=\Delta{}u^{m}$. Our main objective is to improve the H$\ddot{o}$lder estimate obtained by pioneers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Jiaqing Pan

We consider the problem of optimal partition of a domain with respect to the sum of the principal eigenvalues and we prove for the first time regularity results for the free interface up to fixed boundary. All our results are quantitative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Roberto Ognibene , Bozhidar Velichkov

The focus of this study is on exploring some qualitative properties of solutions to a class of semilinear elliptic problems in bounded domains, where the boundary conditions depend non-locally on the unknown solution at specified interior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Chiun-Chang Lee

We study the regularity of the "free surface" in boundary obstacle problems. We show that near a non-degenerate point the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha}$ $(n-2)$-dimensional surface in $\real^{n-1}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Athanasopoulos , L. A. Caffarelli , S. Salsa

In the previous work [Interfaces Free Bound., 19, 351-369, 2017], de Queiroz and Shahgholian investigated the regularity of the solution to the obstacle problem with singular logarithmic forcing term \begin{equation*} -\Delta u = \log u \,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Lili Du , Yi Zhou

We study a class of semilinear free boundary problems in which admissible functions $u$ have a topological constraint, or spanning condition, on their 1-level set. This constraint forces $\{u=1\}$, which is the free boundary, to behave like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Michael Novack , Daniel Restrepo , Anna Skorobogatova

A free boundary problem for the dynamics of a glasslike binary fluid naturally leads to a singular perturbation problem for a strongly degenerate parabolic partial differential equation in 1D. We present a conjecture for an asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Roberto Benzi , Michiel Bertsch , Francesco Deangelis

In a wide class of the so called Obstacle Problems of parabolic type it is shown how to improve the optimal regularity of the solution and as a consequence how to obtain space-time regularity of the corresponding free boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Ioannis Athanasopoulos , Luis Caffarelli , Emmanouil Milakis