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We revisit and sharpen the results from our previous work, where we investigated the regularity of the singular set of the free boundary in the nonlinear obstacle problem. As in the work of Figalli-Serra on the classical obstacle problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

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.

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In this paper, we study the boundary pointwise regularity for the divergence form elliptic boundary problem on domains with rough boundaries, specifically uniform domains. In general, it is not straightforward to define weak solutions for…

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In this article, we prove the local $C^{0,\alpha}$ regularity and provide $C^{0,\alpha}$ estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate, elliptic equations associated to linear or nonlinear Neumann type boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-27 Guy Barles , Francesca Da Lio

In this note we discuss the (higher) regularity properties of the Signorini problem for the homogeneous, isotropic Lam\'e system. Relying on an observation by Schumann \cite{Schumann1}, we reduce the question of the solution's and the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

We obtain boundary nondegeneracy and regularity estimates for solutions to non-divergence equations in $C^1$ domains, providing an explicit modulus of continuity. Our results extend the classical Hopf-Oleinik lemma and boundary Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Clara Torres-Latorre

We develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Kai Xu

In this paper, we establish global $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity for viscosity solutions to a class of singular and degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations subject to oblique boundary conditions. Our work extends the findings in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sun-Sig Byun , Hongsoo Kim , Seunghyun Kim

We provide regularity results at the boundary for continuous viscosity solutions to nonconvex fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations and inequalities in Euclidian domains. We show that (i) any solution of two sided inequalities with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Luis Silvestre , Boyan Sirakov

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

In this paper we establish the optimal interior regularity and the $C^{1,\gamma}$ smoothness of the regular part of the free boundary in the thin obstacle problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations with variable coefficients.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Agnid Banerjee , Federico Buseghin , Nicola Garofalo

This survey on stationary and evolutionary problems with gradient constraints is based on developments of monotonicity and compactness methods applied to large classes of scalar and vectorial solutions to variational and quasi-variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-07 José Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

In this paper, we obtain $C^{1,\alpha}$ estimates for weak solutions of certain quasilinear parabolic equations satisfying nonstandard growth conditions, the prototype examples being $$u_t - \text{div} (|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Karthik Adimurthi , Suchandan Ghosh , Vivek Tewary

In this paper we establish the $C^{1,\beta}$ regularity of the regular part of the free boundary in the Signorini problem for elliptic operators with variable Lipschitz coefficients. This work is a continuation of the recent paper [GSVG14],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

In this work we establish the optimal regularity for solutions to the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. In particular, we show the existence of an optimal exponent $\alpha_F$ such that $u$ is $C^{1,\alpha_F}$ on either side of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Maria Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper, we obtain a series of regularity results for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with oblique derivative boundary conditions. In particular, we derive the pointwise $C^{\alpha}$, $C^{1,\alpha}$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Dongsheng Li , Kai Zhang

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

We develop the complete free boundary analysis for solutions to classical obstacle problems related to nondegenerate nonlinear variational energies. The key tools are optimal $C^{1,1}$ regularity, which we review more generally for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Matteo Focardi , Francesco Geraci , Emanuele Spadaro

This paper investigates the inverse problem of determining a general Signorini obstacle using boundary measurements. We demonstrate that both the shape of the obstacle and the obstacle function can be uniquely determined from solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Ziyao Zhao

Motivated by problems arising in geometric flows, we prove several regularity results for systems of local and nonlocal equations, adapting to the parabolic case a neat argument due to Caffarelli. The geometric motivation of this work comes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Agnid Banerjee , Gonzalo Dávila , Yannick Sire