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In this note, we establish the interior $BMO$ regularity of weak solutions to uniformly elliptic equations in divergence form. Moreover, the assumptions on the coefficients are nearly optimal.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yuanyuan Lian

We continue our study of the free boundary regularity in the thin one-phase problem and show that $C^{2,\alpha}$ free boundaries are smooth.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

This paper deals with the obstacle problem for the infinity Laplacian. The main results are a characterization of the solution through comparison with cones that lie above the obstacle and the sharp $C^{1,1/3}$--regularity at the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Julio D. Rossi , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

We develop regularity theory for degenerate elliptic equations with the degeneracy controlled by a weight. More precisely, we show local boundedness and continuity of weak solutions under the assumption of a weighted Orlicz-Sobolev and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Lyudmila Korobenko

We study regularity properties for solutions to elliptic equations that are degenerate or singular along orthogonal hyperplanes. The degenerate ellipticity is carried out by a weight term which is the monomial product of different powers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Gabriele Cora , Gabriele Fioravanti , Francesco Pagliarin , Stefano Vita

Li and Vogelius, and Li and Nirenberg obtained piecewise $C^{1,\gamma}$-regularity for linear elliptic problems with piecewise $C^{\gamma}$-coefficients which come from composite materials. In this paper, we obtain piecewise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Youchan Kim

We consider fully nonlinear obstacle-type problems of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} F(D^{2}u,x)=f(x) & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\cap\Omega,|D^{2}u|\le K & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Emanuel Indrei , Andreas Minne

The present paper establishes a certain duality between the Dirichlet and Regularity problems for elliptic operators with $t$-independent complex bounded measurable coefficients ($t$ being the transversal direction to the boundary). To be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Steve Hofmann , Carlos Kenig , Svitlana Mayboroda , Jill Pipher

In this paper we establish optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity up to the boundary for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with double phase degeneracy law and oblique boundary conditions. The approach developed here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Junior da Silva Bessa , Jehan Oh

This paper concerns fully nonlinear elliptic obstacle problems with oblique boundary conditions. We investigate the existence, uniqueness and $W^{2,p}$-regularity results by finding approximate non-obstacle problems with the same oblique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sun-Sig Byun , Jeongmin Han , Jehan Oh

We establish boundary regularity estimates for elliptic systems in divergence form with VMO coefficients. Additionally, we obtain nondegeneracy estimates of the Hopf-Oleinik type lemma for elliptic equations. In both cases, the moduli of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Hongjie Dong , Seongmin Jeon

We establish the global gradient bounds for weak solutions to the elliptic variational inequality with two-sided obstructions, associated with a $p(x)$-Laplacian type operator involving degenerate or singular matrix weights. Under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Minh-Phuong Tran , Duc-Quang Bui , Thanh-Nhan Nguyen

We establish gradient H\"older continuity for solutions to quasilinear, uniformly elliptic equations, including $p$-Laplace and Orlicz-Laplace type operators. We revisit and improve upon the results existing in the literature, proving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Carlo Alberto Antonini

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

We investigate the obstacle problem for a class of nonlinear equations driven by nonlocal, possibly degenerate, integro-differential operators, whose model is the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator with measurable coefficients. Amongst other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Janne Korvenpaa , Tuomo Kuusi , Giampiero Palatucci

We study a degenerate elliptic equation, proving existence results of distributional solutions in some borderline cases.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-13 Lucio Boccardo , Gisella Croce

Despite significant recent advances in the regularity theory for obstacle problems with integro-differential operators, some fundamental questions remained open. On the one hand, there was a lack of understanding of parabolic problems with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We study boundary value problems for linear elliptic differential operators of order one. The underlying manifold may be noncompact, but the boundary is assumed to be compact. We require a symmetry property of the principal symbol of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Christian Baer , Werner Ballmann

In this paper we study boundary value problems for higher order elliptic differential operators in divergence form. We consider the two closely related topics of inhomogeneous problems and problems with boundary data in fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Ariel Barton

We develop an existence and regularity theory for a class of degenerate one-phase free boundary problems. In this way we unify the basic theories in free boundary problems like the classical one-phase problem, the obstacle problem, or more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin