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In this paper we are concerned with a two phase boundary obstacle-type problem for the bi-Laplace operator in the upper unit ball. The problem arises in connection with unilateral phenomena for flat elastic plates. It can also be seen as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Donatella Danielli , Alaa Haj Ali

We study the regularity of minimizers of a multiphase vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem. This problem consists in a minimization problem for the Bernoulli functional over families of Sobolev functions with disjoint supports and non…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Giovanni Siclari , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study a variant of the Alt, Caffarelli, and Friedman free boundary problem with many phases and a slightly different volume term, which we originally designed to guess the localization of eigenfunctions of a Schr\"odinger operator in a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Guy David , Marcel Filoche , David Jerison , Svitlana Mayboroda

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 study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

The aim of this paper is first to give necessary and sufficient condition of existence (of free boundaries) for both Laplacian and bi-Laplacian operators in the case where the overdetermined condition is not constant. second, by using some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Mohammed Barkatou

In this paper, we prove several regularity results for the heterogeneous, two-phase free boundary problems $\mathcal {J}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\big(f(x,\nabla u)+\lambda_{+}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Jun Zheng

We study critical points of a one-parameter family of functionals arising in combustion models. The problems we consider converge, for infinitesimal values of the parameter, to Bernoulli's free boundary problem, also known as one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Alessandro Audrito , Joaquim Serra

In this paper, we explore cooperative and competitive coupled obstacle systems, which, up to now, are new type obstacle systems and formed by coupling two equations belonging to classical obstacle problem. On one hand, applying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Lili Du , Xu Tang , Cong Wang

We provide perturbative estimates for the one-phase Stefan free boundary problem and obtain the regularity of flat free boundaries via a linearization technique in the spirit of the elliptic counterpart established by the first author.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Daniela De Silva , Nicolo Forcillo , Ovidiu Savin

We prove a regularity theorem for the free boundary of minimizers of the two-phase Bernoulli problem, completing the analysis started by Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman in the 80s. As a consequence, we also show regularity of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Guido De Philippis , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We establish interior regularity and optimal growth estimates for sign-changing minimizers of the $p-$singular or $p-$degenerate quasilinear Alt--Phillips functional throughout the full range of $1<p<\infty$ and of the nonlinearity power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Yousef Alamri , José Miguel Urbano

In this paper we prove a classification result for axially symmetric one phase minimizers of the Alt-Phillips free boundary problem in dimensions 3, 4, and 5. To accomplish this, we establish a stability inequality that extends the one for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Aram Karakhanyan , Tomás Sanz-Perela

We study the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem associated to a phase transition modeled upon the degenerate two-phase Stefan problem. We prove that weak solutions are continuous up to the parabolic boundary and quantify the continuity by deriving a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Paolo Baroni , Tuomo Kuusi , Casimir Lindfors , José Miguel Urbano

We prove existence and regularity of solutions to degenerate and singular elliptic free boundary problems, where the volume of the positivity set of the solution is prescribed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 T. M. Nascimento , X. H. Nguyen , P. R. Stinga

In this paper we establish the optimal interior regularity and the $C^{1,\gamma}$ smoothness of the regular part of the free boundary in the thin obstacle problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with variable coefficients.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Agnid Banerjee , Federico Buseghin , Nicola Garofalo

We prove existence, uniqueness and regularity results for mixed boundary value problems associated with fully nonlinear, possibly singular or degenerate elliptic equations. Our main result is a global H\"older estimate for solutions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Isabeau Birindelli , Francoise Demengel , Fabiana Leoni

Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have been extensively studied in the literature. We initiate the corresponding study of higher critical points by considering a superlinear free boundary problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-30 David Jerison , Kanishka Perera

As an application of the theory of linear parabolic differential equations on noncompact Riemannian manifolds, developed in earlier papers, we prove a maximal regularity theorem for nonuniformly parabolic boundary value problems in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Herbert Amann

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem with variable coefficients and non-zero right hand side. We prove that flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$ using a different approach than the classical supconvolution method of Caffarelli.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-11 Daniela De Silva