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We study regularity properties of the free boundary for the thin one-phase problem which consists of minimizing the energy functional $$\label{E} E(u,\Omega) = \int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 dX + \mathcal{H}^n(\{u>0\} \cap \{x_{n+1} = 0\}), \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We consider the vectorial analogue of the thin free boundary problem introduced in \cite{CRS} as a realization of a nonlocal version of the classical Bernoulli problem. We study optimal regularity, nondegeneracy, and density properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Daniela De Silva , Giorgio Tortone

We consider the reaction-diffusion problem $-\Delta_g u = f(u)$ in $\mathcal{B}_R$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, posed in a geodesic ball $\mathcal{B}_R$ with radius $R$ of a Riemannian model $(M,g)$. This class of Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Daniele Castorina , Manel Sanchon

We obtain new quantitative estimates of the vanishing viscosity approximation for time-dependent, degenerate, Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are neither concave nor convex in the gradient and Hessian entries of the form $\partial_t…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Alekos Cecchin , Alessandro Goffi

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 consider periodic homogenization of boundary value problems for quasilinear second-order ODE systems in divergence form of the type $a(x,x/\varepsilon,u(x),u'(x))'= f(x,x/\varepsilon,u(x),u'(x))$ for $x \in [0,1]$. For small…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Nikolai N. Nefedov , Lutz Recke

In this work, a boundary control problem for the following generalized Burgers-Huxley (GBH) equation: $$u_t=\nu u_{xx}-\alpha u^{\delta}u_x+\beta u(1-u^{\delta})(u^{\delta}-\gamma), $$ where $\nu,\alpha,\beta>0,$ $1\leq\delta<\infty$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Shri Lal Raghudev Ram Singh , Manil T. Mohan

We study positive solutions of the superlinear Lane-Emden inequality \(-\Delta u\ge \sigma u^q\), \(q>1\), on infinite locally finite weighted graphs and connected domains of such graphs. We first prove that solvability is equivalent to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Qingsong Gu , Lu Hao , Xueping Huang , Yuhua Sun

We consider the fourth order problem $\Delta^{2}u=\lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ with the Navier boundary condition $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Here, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter and $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 A. Aghajani

This article deals with the variable coefficient thin obstacle problem in $n+1$ dimensions. We address the regular free boundary regularity, the behavior of the solution close to the free boundary and the optimal regularity of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We prove new optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for obstacle problems involving evolutionary $p$-Laplace type operators in the degenerate regime $p > 2$. Our main results include the optimal regularity improvement at free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Sunghan Kim , Kaj Nyström

We consider an one-phase free boundary problem for a degenerate fully non-linear elliptic operators with non-zero right hand side. We use the approach present in \cite{DeSilva} to prove that flat free boundaries and Lipschitz free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-19 R. Leitão , G. C Ricarte

This paper is devoted to the study of semi-stable radial solutions $u\in H^1(B_1)$ of $-\Delta u=g(u) {in} B_1\setminus \{0\}$, where $g\in C^1(R)$ is a general nonlinearity and $B_1$ is the unit ball of $R^N$. We establish sharp pointwise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-09 Salvador Villegas

In this paper we initiate the investigation of free boundary minimization problems ruled by general singular operators with $A_2$ weights. We show existence and boundedness of minimizers. The key novelty is a sharp $C^{1+\gamma}$ regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jimmy Lamboley , Yannick Sire , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We establish sharp regularity estimates for solutions to $Lu=f$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, being $L$ the generator of any stable and symmetric L\'evy process. Such nonlocal operators $L$ depend on a finite measure on $S^{n-1}$, called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We consider the semilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta u =\lambda f(u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $R^{n}$ with Dirichielt boundary condition, where $f$ is a $C^{1}$ positive and nondeccreasing function in $[0,\infty)$ such that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Asadollah Aghajani

We prove {the first} regularity theorem for the free boundary of solutions to shape optimization problems involving integral functionals, for which the energy of a domain $\Omega$ is obtained as the integral of a cost function $j(u,x)$…

We study the regularity of the viscosity solution $u$ of the $\sigma_k$-Loewner-Nirenberg problem on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ for $k \geq 2$. It was known that $u$ is locally Lipschitz in $\Omega$. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen , Jingang Xiong

In this paper, we are interested in the regularity of weak solutions $u\colon\Omega_T\to\mathbb{R}$ to parabolic equations of the type \begin{equation*} \partial_t u - \mathrm{div} \nabla \mathcal{F}(x,t,Du) = f\qquad\mbox{in $\Omega_T$},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Michael Strunk

This paper is a continuation of our previous work [21], where we have established that, for the second-order degenerate hyperbolic equation (\p_t^2-t^m\Delta_x)u=f(t,x,u), locally bounded, piecewise smooth solutions u(t,x) exist when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Zhuoping Ruan , Ingo Witt , Huicheng Yin