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We study obstacle problems governed by two distinct types of diffusion operators involving interacting free boundaries. We obtain a somewhat surprising coupling property, leading to a comprehensive analysis of the free boundary. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Damião J. Araújo , Rafayel Teymurazyan

In this paper we study the existence, the optimal regularity of solutions, and the regularity of the free boundary near the so-called \emph{regular points} in a thin obstacle problem that arises as the local extension of the obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Agnid Banerjee , Donatella Danielli , Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan

In this paper, we develop a series of boundary pointwise regularity for Dirichlet problems and oblique derivative problems. As applications, we give direct and simple proofs of the higher regularity of the free boundaries in obstacle-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

This paper introduces a notion of regularity (or irregularity) of the point at infinity for the unbounded open subset of $\rr^{N}$ concerning second order uniformly elliptic equations with bounded and measurable coefficients, according as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Ugur G. Abdulla

We obtain a generic regularity result for stationary integral $n$-varifolds with only strongly isolated singularities inside $N$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, in absence of any restriction on the dimension ($n\geq 2$) and codimension.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Alessandro Carlotto , Yangyang Li , Zhihan Wang

For a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian, we prove that "flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We recover the regularity results of Caffarelli for viscosity solutions of the classical Bernoulli-type free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Daniela De Silva , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

In this paper, we consider the properties of a special free boundary point in the following obstacle problem: The Laplacian of u equals f(x) multiplied by the characteristic function of the set where u is positive within the two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yong Liu

We prove some detailed quantitative stability results for the contact set and the solution of the classical obstacle problem in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n \ge 2$) under perturbations of the obstacle function, which is also equivalent to studying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Sylvia Serfaty , Joaquim Serra

We study the parabolic free boundary problem of obstacle type $$ \lap u-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}= f\chi_{{u\ne 0}}. $$ Under the condition that $f=Hv$ for some function $v$ with bounded second order spatial derivatives and bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-11 John Andersson , Erik Lindgren , Henrik Shahgholian

This paper studies several aspects of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics, mostly on 4-manifolds. We prove boundary regularity (at infinity) for such metrics and establish uniqueness under natural conditions on the boundary data. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael T. Anderson

Using the Caffarelli--Silvestre extension, we show for a general open set $\Om\subset\R^n$ that a boundary point $x_0$ is regular for the fractional Laplace equation $(-\Delta)^su=0$, $0<s<1$, if and only if $(x_0,0)$ is regular for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jana Björn

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of $W^{2,p}$ ($n<p<\infty$) solutions of a double obstacle problem with $C^{1,1}$ obstacle functions. Moreover, we show the optimal regularity of the solution and the local $C^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park

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

Recent work by Serfaty and Serra give a formula for the velocity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem at regular points [Serfaty-Serra 2018], and much older work by King, Lacey, and Vazquez gives an example of a singular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Niles Armstrong , Ivan Blank

We show that all resonances in Dirichlet obstacle scattering (in $\mathbb{C}$ in odd dimensions and in the logarithmic cover of $\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\}$ in even dimensions) are generically simple in the class of obstacles with $C^k$ (and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Haoren Xiong

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto

In this paper non-transversal intersection of the free and fixed boundary is shown to hold in any dimension for obstacle problems generated by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators. Moreover, $C^1$ regularity results of the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Emanuel Indrei

This is a continuation of our earlier work [14] on the Monge-Amp\`ere obstacle problem \[ \det D^2 v = v^q \chi_{\{v>0\}}, \quad v \geq 0 \text{ convex} \] with $q \in [0,n)$, where we studied the regularity of the strictly convex part of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Tianling Jin , Xushan Tu , Jingang Xiong

We establish generic regularity results for isoperimetric regions in closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension eight. In particular, we show that every isoperimetric region has a smooth nondegenerate boundary for a generic choice of smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Kobe Marshall-Stevens , Gongping Niu , Davide Parise

In this paper, we are concerned with the regularity of noncollapsed Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with bounded Ricci curvature, as well as their Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces $(M^n_j,d_j)\stackrel{d_{GH}}{\longrightarrow} (X,d)$, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Jeff Cheeger , Aaron Naber