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We study viscosity solutions to the classical one-phase problem and its thin counterpart. In low dimensions, we show that when the free boundary is the graph of a continuous function, the solution is the half-plane solution. This answers,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Max Engelstein , Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

In this paper, we obtain the boundary pointwise $C^{1,\alpha}$ and $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. I.e., If $\partial \Omega$ is $C^{1,\alpha}$ (or $C^{2,\alpha}$) at $x_0\in \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

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

We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yash Jhaveri , Robin Neumayer

It is well known that minimizers of the Allen-Cahn-type functional \[ J_\epsilon(u):=\int_\Omega\frac{\epsilon|\nabla u|^2}{2}+\frac{W(u)}{\epsilon}, \] where $W$ is a double-well potential, resemble minimal surfaces in the sense that their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jingeon An

In this paper we show boundary monotonicity formulae for rectifiable varifolds having a $C^{1,\alpha}$ "boundary". In particular, we show that the area ratios of balls centered at this "boundary'' satisfy a nice monotonicity formula,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-11 Theodora Bourni

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 study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

In this paper, we prove that flat free boundaries of solutions to inhomogeneous one-phase Stefan problem are $C^{1,\alpha}$. The method consists of employing a hodograph transform and deriving the regularity via a linearization technique,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Fausto Ferrari , Nicolò Forcillo , Davide Giovagnoli , David Jesus

We prove that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of two-phase free boundary problems governed by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators and with non-zero right hand side are $C^{1,\gamma}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

We study the one-phase Alt-Phillips free boundary problem, focusing on the case of negative exponents $\gamma \in (-2,0)$. The goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we prove smoothness of $C^{1,\alpha}$-regular free boundaries by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Matteo Carducci , Giorgio Tortone

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 consider a free boundary problem for the $p$-Laplace operator which is related to the so-called Bernoulli free boundary problem. In this formulation, the classical boundary gradient condition is replaced by a condition on the distance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Maria del Mar Gonzalez , Maria Gualdani , Henrik Shahgholian

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $\min\bigl\{-\Delta_p u,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here, $\Delta_p u=\textrm{div}\bigl(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Alessio Figalli , Brian Krummel , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper, we obtain a series of regularity results for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with oblique derivative boundary conditions. In particular, we derive the pointwise $C^{\alpha}$, $C^{1,\alpha}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Dongsheng Li , Kai Zhang

We study a free boundary problem on the lattice whose scaling limit is a harmonic free boundary problem with a discontinuous Hamiltonian. We find an explicit formula for the Hamiltonian, prove the solutions are unique, and prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 William M Feldman , Charles K Smart

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

In the present paper, we study sharp C^{1;\alpha} regularity results with boundary Neumann condition for viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate fully non-linear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-12 G. C. Ricarte

The purpose of this note is to give a complete proof of a $C^{0,\alpha}$ regularity result for the pressure for weak solutions of the two-dimensional "incompressible Euler equations" when the fluid velocity enjoys the same type of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Claude W. Bardos , Edriss S. Titi

In this paper, we consider a vector-valued one-phase Bernoulli-type free boundary problem on a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ with Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $RCD(K,N)$. We first prove the existence and the local Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Chung-Kwong Chan , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu