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We prove the $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary in the Signorini problem with variable coefficients. We use a $C^{1,\alpha}$ boundary Harnack inequality in slit domain. The key method is to study a non-standard degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Chilin Zhang

In this paper we discuss the obstacle problem for the $p$-Laplace operator. We prove optimal growth results for the solution. Of particular interest is the point-wise regularity of the solution at free boundary points. The most surprising…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-19 John Andersson , Erik Lindgren , Henrik Shahgholian

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan

This paper is dedicated to a free boundary system arising in the study of a class of shape optimization problems. The problem involves three variables: two functions $u$ and $v$, and a domain $\Omega$; with $u$ and $v$ being both positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Francesco Paolo Maiale , Giorgio Tortone , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study boundary regularity for the inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem for $2s$-stable operators in generalized H\"older spaces. Moreover, we provide explicit counterexamples that showcase the sharpness of our results. Our approach directly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Florian Grube

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $\min\bigl\{-\Delta_p u,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here, $\Delta_p u=\textrm{div}\bigl(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Alessio Figalli , Brian Krummel , Xavier Ros-Oton

We prove optimal regularity and derive several geometric properties for solutions of a free boundary problem with fractional diffusion. Additionally, we deduce local $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for the corresponding interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Diego Marcon , Rafayel Teymurazyan

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^1$ near regular points.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We add a divergence-free drift with increasing magnitude to the fractional Laplacian on a bounded smooth domain, and discuss the behavior of the principal eigenvalue for the Dirichlet problem. The eigenvalue remains bounded if and only if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Krzysztof Bogdan , Tomasz Komorowski

We consider the Bernoulli one-phase free boundary problem in a domain $\Omega$ and show that the free boundary $F$ is $C^{1,1/2}$ regular in a neighborhood of the fixed boundary $\partial \Omega$. We achieve this by relating the behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Hector Chang-Lara , Ovidiu Savin

We prove sharp boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations arising from operators comparable to the fractional Laplacian over Reifenberg flat sets and with null exterior condition. More precisely, if the operator has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adriano Prade

We prove some sharp regularity results for solutions of classical first order hyperbolic initial boundary value problems. Our two main improvements on the existing litterature are weaker regularity assumptions for the boundary data and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Corentin Audiard

We study a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with weight function admitting a discontinuity along a smooth jump interface. In any dimension $N\ge 2$, we show the $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary outside of a singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper, we prove local $C^{1}$ regularity of free boundaries for the double obstacle problem with an upper obstacle $\psi$, \begin{align*} \Delta u &=f\chi_{\Omega(u) \cap\{ u< \psi\} }+ \Delta \psi \chi_{\Omega(u)\cap \{u=\psi\}},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper we extend previous results on the regularity of solutions of integro-differential parabolic equations. The kernels are non necessarily symmetric which could be interpreted as a non-local drift with the same order as the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Hector Chang-Lara , Gonzalo Davila

This paper concerns the regularity and geometry of the free boundary in the optimal partial transport problem for general cost functions. More specifically, we prove that a $C^1$ cost implies a locally Lipschitz free boundary. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Shibing Chen , Emanuel Indrei

We study boundary regularity for solutions to a class of equations involving the so called regional fractional Lapacians $(-\Delta)^s_\Omega $, with $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. Recall that the regional fractional Laplacians are generated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall

We present sharp conditions on divergence-free drifts in Lebesgue spaces for the passive scalar advection-diffusion equation \[ \partial_t \theta - \Delta \theta + b \cdot \nabla \theta = 0 \] to satisfy local boundedness, a single-scale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Dallas Albritton , Hongjie Dong

In this paper, we obtain some regularities of the free boundary in optimal transportation with the quadratic cost. Our first result is about the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary for optimal partial transport between convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Shibing Chen , Jiakun Liu

We study a general class of elliptic free boundary problems equipped with a Dirichlet boundary condition. Our primary result establishes an optimal $C^{1,1}$-regularity estimate for $L^p$-strong solutions at points where the free and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Damião J. Araújo , Andreas Minne , Edgard A. Pimentel