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In this paper we establish the $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity of the regular part of the free boundary in the Signorini problem for elliptic operators with variable Lipschitz coefficients. This work is a continuation of the recent paper [GSVG14],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

In this paper we study the following parabolic system \begin{equation*} \Delta \u -\partial_t \u =|\u|^{q-1}\u\,\chi_{\{ |\u|>0 \}}, \qquad \u = (u^1, \cdots , u^m) \ , \end{equation*} with free boundary $\partial \{|\u | >0\}$. For $0\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Gohar Aleksanyan , Morteza Fotouhi , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg S. Weiss

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

In this paper, we study local minimizers of a degenerate version of the Alt-Caffarelli functional. Specifically, we consider local minimizers of the functional $J_{Q}(u, \Omega):= \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2 + Q(x)^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}dx$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Sean McCurdy

We study a class of degenerate parabolic equations with boundary point degeneracy in dimensions N>=2 and investigate the associated boundary observability problem by means of shape design. While one-dimensional degenerate models have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

We study the singular part of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian, \ $\min\bigl\{(-\Delta)^su,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, for general obstacles $\varphi$. Our main result establishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Nicola Garofalo , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper, we present a problem involving fully nonlinear elliptic operators with Hamiltonian, which can present a singularity or degenerate as the gradient approaches the origin. The model studied here, allows the appearance of plateau…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Rafael R. Costa , Ginaldo S. Sá

We show that the quotient of two caloric functions which vanish on a portion of an $H^{k+ \alpha}$ regular slit is $H^{k+ \alpha}$ at the slit, for $k \geq 2$. In the case $k=1$, we show that the quotient is in $H^{1+\alpha}$ if the slit is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Agnid Banerjee , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia , Andrew K. Zeller

In the class of the so called non-dynamic Fractional Obstacle Problems of parabolic type, it is shown how to obtain higher regularity as well as optimal regularity of the space derivatives of the solution. Furthermore, at free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Ioannis Athanasopoulos , Luis Caffarelli , Emmanouil Milakis

We discuss the optimal regularity and nondegeneracy of a free boundary problem related to the fractional Laplacian. This work is related to, but addresses a different problem from, recent work of Caffarelli, Roquejoffre, and Sire. A variant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-08 Ray Yang

We prove the $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary in the Signorini problem with variable coefficients. We use a $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundary Harnack inequality in slit domain. The key method is to study a non-standard degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chilin Zhang

We study the higher regularity of solutions and free boundaries in the Alt-Phillips problem $\Delta u=u^{\gamma-1}$, with $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Our main results imply that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Daniel Restrepo , Xavier Ros-Oton

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

Motivated by problems arising in geometric flows, we prove several regularity results for systems of local and nonlocal equations, adapting to the parabolic case a neat argument due to Caffarelli. The geometric motivation of this work comes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Agnid Banerjee , Gonzalo Dávila , Yannick Sire

Let $M$ be a weighted manifold with boundary $\partial M$, i.e., a Riemannian manifold where a density function is used to weight the Riemannian Hausdorff measures. In this paper we compute the first and the second variational formulas of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Katherine Castro , César Rosales

We establish sharp regularity for the value function, the pressure, and the free boundary in one-dimensional first-order mean field games with power coupling and compactly supported density. Under a standard nondegeneracy assumption on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sebastian Munoz

We study the regularity of solutions to the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. We establish local $C^{1,\alpha}$ estimates on each side of the smooth obstacle, for some small $\alpha > 0$. Our results extend those of Milakis-Silvestre…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Xavier Fernández-Real

In this work there is established an optimal existence and regularity theory for second order linear parabolic differential equations on a large class of noncompact Riemannian manifolds. Then it is shown that it provides a general unifying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Herbert Amann

This paper is devoted to a study of the controllability of a free-boundary problem for a class of one-dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with distributed controls, locally supported in space. We prove that for any $T>0$, if the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Lingyang Liu

In this paper, we prove Wiener's criterion for parabolic equations with singular and degenerate coefficients. To be precise, we study the problem of the regularity of boundary points for the Dirichlet problem for degenerate parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Xi Hu , Lin Tang
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