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We construct non-flat minimal capillary cones with bi-orthogonal symmetry groups for any dimension and contact angle. These cones interpolate between rescalings of a singular solution to the one-phase problem and the free-boundary cone…
We consider the "thin one-phase" free boundary problem, associated to minimizing a weighted Dirichlet energy of the function in $\mathbb R^{n+1}_+$ plus the area of the positivity set of that function in $\mathbb R^n$. We establish full…
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A commutative algebra $\mathbb{B}$ over the field of complex numbers with the bases $\{e_1,e_2\}$ satisfying the conditions $(e_1^2+e_2^2)^2=0$, $e_1^2+e_2^2\ne 0$, is considered. The algebra $\mathbb{B}$ is associated with the biharmonic…
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We consider a two-dimensional commutative algebra B over the field of complex numbers. The algebra B is associated with the biharmonic equation. For monogenic functions with values in B, we consider a Schwartz-type boundary value problem…
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We study the regularity of the "free surface" in boundary obstacle problems. We show that near a non-degenerate point the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha}$ $(n-2)$-dimensional surface in $\real^{n-1}$.