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In this paper, we continue the 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 +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Sean McCurdy

In this paper we consider the minimization of the functional \[ J[u]:=\int_\Omega |\Delta u|^2+\chi_{\{u>0\}} \] in the admissible class of functions \[ \mathcal A:= \left\{u\in W^{2, 2}(\Omega) {\mbox{ s.t. }} u-u_0\in W^{1,2}_0(\Omega)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Serena Dipierro , Aram Karakhanyan , Enrico Valdinoci

We prove new boundary regularity results for minimizers to the one-phase Alt-Caffarelli functional (also known as Bernoulli free boundary problem) in the case of continuous and H\"older-continuous boundary data. As an application, we use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xavier Fernández-Real , Florian Gruen

In this paper we study the two-phase Bernoulli type free boundary problem arising from the minimization of the functional $$ J(u):=\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^p +\lambda_+^p\,\chi_{\{u>0\}} +\lambda_-^p\,\chi_{\{u\le 0\}}, \quad 1<p<\infty. $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Serena Dipierro , Aram L. Karakhanyan

We eliminate the existence of cusps in a class of \textit{degenerate} free-boundary problems for the Alt-Caffarelli functional $J_{Q}(v, \Omega):= \int_{\Omega}|\nabla v|^2 + Q^2(x)\chi_{\{v>0\}}dx,$ so-called because $Q(x) = \text{dist}(x,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Sean McCurdy , Lisa Naples

Given a global 1-homogeneous minimizer $U_0$ to the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional, with $sing(F(U_0)) = \{0\}$, we provide a foliation of the half-space $\R^{n} \times [0,+\infty)$ with dilations of graphs of global minimizers…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Daniela De Silva , David Jerison , Henrik Shahgholian

We study the minimum problem for the functional $\int_{\Omega}\bigl( \vert \nabla \mathbf{u} \vert^{2} + Q^{2}\chi_{\{\vert \mathbf{u}\vert>0\}} \bigr)dx$ with the constraint $u_i\geq 0$ for $i=1,\cdots,m$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Luis A. Caffarelli , Henrik Shahgholian , Karen Yeressian

Consider the parabolic free boundary problem $$ \Delta u - \partial_t u = 0 \textrm{in} \{u>0\}, |\nabla u|=1 \textrm{on} \partial\{u>0\} . $$ For a realistic class of solutions, containing for example {\em all} limits of the singular…

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

The aim of this paper is to study the heterogeneous optimization problem \begin{align*} \mathcal {J}(u)=\int_{\Omega}(G(|\nabla u|)+qF(u^+)+hu+\lambda_{+}\chi_{\{u>0\}} )\text{d}x\rightarrow\text{min}, \end{align*} in the class of functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Jun Zheng , Leandro S. Tavares , Claudianor O. Alves

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

In this paper we classify the nonnegative global minimizers of the functional \[ J_F(u)=\int_\Omega F(|\nabla u|^2)+\lambda^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}, \] where $F$ satisfies some structural conditions and $\chi_D$ is the characteristic function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Aram Karakhanyan

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

We consider a generalization of the Bernoulli free boundary problem where the underlying differential operator is a nonlocal, non-translation-invariant elliptic operator of order $2s\in (0,2)$. Because of the lack of translation invariance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Stanley Snelson , Eduardo V. Teixeira

In this paper we study nonnegative minimizers of general degenerate elliptic functionals, $\int F(X,u,Du) dX \to \min$, for variational kernels $F$ that are discontinuous in $u$ with discontinuity of order $\sim \chi_{\{u > 0 \}}$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-14 Raimundo Leitão , Eduardo V. Teixeira

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

In this manuscript, we delve into the study of maps $u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega;\overline M)$ that minimize the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional $$ \int_\Omega (|Du|^2 + q^2 \chi_{u^{-1}(M)})\,dx, $$ under the condition that the image $u(\Omega)$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Alessio Figalli , André Guerra , Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Max Engelstein , Aapo Kauranen , Martí Prats , Georgios Sakellaris , Yannick Sire

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 consider minimizers of \[ F(\lambda_1(\Omega),\ldots,\lambda_N(\Omega)) + |\Omega|, \] where $F$ is a function strictly increasing in each parameter, and $\lambda_k(\Omega)$ is the $k$-th Dirichlet eigenvalue of $\Omega$. Our main result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Dennis Kriventsov , Fanghua Lin

In this paper we are interested in the study of a two-phase problem equipped with the $\Phi$-Laplacian operator $$ \Delta_\Phi u \coloneqq \mbox{div} \left(\phi(|\nabla u|)\dfrac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right), $$ where $\Phi(s)=e^{s^2}-1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Pedro F. Silva Pontes , Minbo Yang
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