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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

Consider a sequence of minimal varieties M_i in a Riemannian manifold N such that the boundary measures are uniformly bounded on compact sets. Let Z be the set of points at which the areas of the M_i blow up. We prove that Z behaves in some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Brian White

In the present paper, we study sharp C^{1;\alpha} regularity results with boundary Neumann condition for viscosity solutions for a class of degenerate fully non-linear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-12 G. C. Ricarte

We give a comprehensive treatment of the parabolic Signorini problem based on a generalization of Almgren's monotonicity of the frequency. This includes the proof of the optimal regularity of solutions, classification of free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Donatella Danielli , Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Tung To

We construct a monotonicity formula for the free boundary problem of the form $\Delta u=\mu$, where $\mu$ is a Radon measure. It implies that the blow up limits of solutions are homogenous functions of degree one. The first formula is new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Aram Karakhanyan

We study the Signorini problem near a fixed boundary, where the solution is "clamped down" or "glued." We show that in general the solutions are at least $C^{1/2}$ regular and that this regularity is sharp. We prove that near the actual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Norayr Matevosyan , Arshak Petrosyan

We consider an oscillatory obstacle problem where the coincidence set and free boundary are also highly oscillatory. We establish a rate of convergence for a regularized notion of free boundary to the free boundary of a corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Farhan Abedin , William M Feldman

Building upon the recent results in \cite{FoSp17} we provide a thorough description of the free boundary for the fractional obstacle problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with obstacle function $\varphi$ (suitably smooth and decaying fast at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

In this paper, we consider a free boundary problem with volume constraint. We show that positive minimizer is locally Lipschitz and the free boundary is analytic away from a singular set with Hausdorff dimension at most $n-8$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huiqiang Jiang

For the Alt-Caffarelli problem, we study free boundary regularity of energy minimizers. In six dimensions, we show that free boundaries are analytic for generic boundary data. In general, we improve previous generic Hausdorff dimensions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

We study the regularity and comparison principle for a gradient degenerate Neumann problem. The problem is a generalization of the Signorini or thin obstacle problem which appears in the study of certain singular anisotropic free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-12 William Feldman , Zhonggan Huang

In this paper we study the free boundary regularity for almost-minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_{\mathcal O} |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x)\ dx \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Guy David , Max Engelstein , Tatiana Toro

We prove local boundedness of generalized solutions to a large class of variational problems of linear growth including boundary value problems of minimal surface type and models from image analysis related to the procedure of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-05 Michael Bildhauer , Martin Fuchs , Jan Mueller , Xiao Zhong

We prove $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity (in the parabolic sense) for the viscosity solution of a boundary obstacle problem with a fully nonlinear parabolic equation in the interior. Following the method which was first introduced for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Georgiana Chatzigeorgiou

We introduce the nonlocal analogue of the classical free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in an open domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the (boundaries of) critical points of the fractional perimeter $\operatorname{Per}_s(\cdot,\,\Omega )$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Marco Badran , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

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

We prove the -- to the best knowledge of the authors -- first result on the fine asymptotic behavior of the regular part of the free boundary of the obstacle problem close to singularities. The result is motivated by our recent partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Simon Eberle , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg Sebastian Weiss

In this article we study optimization problems ruled by $\alpha$-fractional diffusion operators with volume constraints. By means of penalization techniques we prove existence of solutions. We also show that every solution is locally of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Eduardo V. Teixeira , Rafayel Teymurazyan

We investigate singular and degenerate behavior of solutions of the unstable free boundary problem $$\Delta u = -\chi_{\{u>0\}} .$$ First, we construct a solution that is not of class $C^{1,1}$ and whose free boundary consists of four arcs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Andersson , G. S. Weiss

Using a direct approach, we prove a $2$-dimensional epiperimetric inequality for the one-phase problem in the scalar and vectorial cases and for the double-phase problem. From this we deduce, in dimension $2$, the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov