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We consider a convex solid cone $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with vertex at the origin and boundary $\partial\mathcal{C}$ smooth away from $0$. Our main result shows that a compact two-sided hypersurface $\Sigma$ immersed in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 César Rosales

We consider the Dirichlet problem for stationary biharmonic maps $u$ from a bounded, smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ ($n\ge 5$) to a compact, smooth Riemannian manifold $N\subset\mathbb R^l$ without boundary. For any smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-04 Huajun Gong , Tobias Lamm , Changyou Wang

In this article we prove that the set of flat singular points of locally highest density of area-minimizing integral currents of dimension $m$ and general codimension in a smooth Riemannian manifold $\Sigma$ has locally finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Gianmarco Caldini , Anna Skorobogatova

We show that for a generic $8$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with positive Ricci curvature, there exists a smooth minimal hypersurface. Without the curvature condition, we show that for a dense set of 8-dimensional Riemannian metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Otis Chodosh , Yevgeny Liokumovich , Luca Spolaor

We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for the Signorini problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. It is known that regular points are $(n-1)$-dimensional and $C^\infty$. However, even for $C^\infty$ obstacles $\varphi$, the set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

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 the previous work [Interfaces Free Bound., 19, 351--369, 2017], de Queiroz and Shahgholian established the optimal $C^{1,\log}_{\mathrm{loc}}$ regularity of solutions for the obstacle problem with singular logarithmic forcing term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Lili Du , Xu Tang , Yi Zhou

In this paper we generalize the main result of [4] for manifolds that are not necessarily Einstein. In fact, we obtain an upper bound for the volume of a locally volume-minimizing closed hypersurface $\Sigma$ of a Riemannian 5-manifold $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Abraão Mendes

We study the obstacle problem for parabolic operators of the type $\partial_t + L$, where $L$ is an elliptic integro-differential operator of order $2s$, such as $(-\Delta)^s$, in the supercritical regime $s \in (0,{1/2})$. The best result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of $W^{2,p}$ ($n<p<\infty$) solutions of a double obstacle problem with $C^{1,1}$ obstacle functions. Moreover, we show the optimal regularity of the solution and the local $C^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ (and more general integro-differential operators) in the regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. We prove that once the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Teo Kukuljan

We prove that the 3-D free-surface incompressible Euler equations with regular initial geometries and velocity fields have solutions which can form a finite-time "splash" (or "splat") singularity first introduced in [9], wherein the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

In this article we use flatness improvement argument to study the regularity of the free boundary for the biharmonic obstacle problem with zero obstacle. Assuming that the solution is almost one-dimensional, and that the non-coincidence set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Gohar Aleksanyan

In this note, we give sufficient conditions for the (semi)stability of a hypersurface $H$ of $\mathbb{P}^N_k$ in terms of its degree $d$, the maximal multiplicity $\delta$ of its singularities, and the dimension $s$ of its singular locus.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Thomas Mordant

For any 3-manifold M and any nonnegative integer g, we give here examples of metrics on M each of which has a sequence of embedded minimal surfaces of genus g and without Morse index bounds. On any spherical space form S^3/Gamma we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Camillo De Lellis

We introduce a unified geometric framework for domains satisfying a geometric normal property (C-GNP) relative to a strictly convex set \(C\). Under the fundamental assumption that the source \(f\) is supported within the core \(C\), we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Mohammed Barkatou

For any $n$-dimensional smooth manifold $\Sigma$, we show that all the singularities of the mean curvature flow with any initial mean convex hypersurface in $\Sigma$ are cylindrical (of convex type) if the flow converges to a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding

A two-dimensional steady problem of a potential free-surface flow of an ideal incompressible fluid caused by a singular sink is considered. The sink is placed at the horizontal bottom of the fluid layer. With the help of the Levi-Civita…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Anastasia A. Mestnikova , Victor N. Starovoitov

In this article we study solutions to the (interior) thin obstacle problem under low regularity assumptions on the coefficients, the obstacle and the underlying manifold. Combining the linearization method of Andersson \cite{An16} and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We show that if $M^n$ is a properly immersed, two-sided, stable minimal hypersurface in $B^{n+1}_1(0)\setminus S$, where $S$ is closed with $\mathcal{H}^{n-2}(S)=0$, then $\text{dim}_{\mathcal{H}}\text{sing}(M)\leq n-7$, namely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Paul Minter , Zhengyi Xiao