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We establish the boundary pointwise Lipschitz regularity on exterior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains and the Hopf lemma on interior $C^{1,\mathrm{Dini}}$ domains for fully nonlinear parabolic equations by a unified perturbation method. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Jiqi Dong , Xuemei Li , Yuanyuan Lian

An $\mathrm{L}_1$-maximal regularity theory for parabolic evolution equations inspired by the pioneering work of Da Prato and Grisvard is developed. Besides of its own interest, the approach yields a framework allowing global-in-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Raphaël Danchin , Matthias Hieber , Piotr B. Mucha , Patrick Tolksdorf

We study second order parabolic equations on Lipschitz domains subject to inhomogeneous Neumann (or, more generally, Robin) boundary conditions. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions and their continuity up to the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Robin Nittka

We study a model for combustion on a boundary. Specifically, we study certain generalized solutions of the equation \[ (-\Delta)^s u = \chi_{\{u>c\}} \] for $0<s<1$ and an arbitrary constant $c$. Our main object of study is the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Mark Allen , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yash Jhaveri , Robin Neumayer

In this paper, we consider the sign-changing free boundary problem related to the uniformly rotating vortex patch solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. We prove that the boundary of the vortex patch locally forms…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Yuchen Wang , Guanghui Zhang , Maolin Zhou

Motivated by a nonlocal free boundary problem, we study uniform properties of solutions to a singular perturbation problem for a boundary-reaction-diffusion equation, where the reaction term is of combustion type. This boundary problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Arshak Petrosyan , Wenhui Shi , Yannick Sire

We investigate existence and nonexistence of stationary stable nonconstant solutions, i.e. patterns, of semilinear parabolic problems in bounded domains of Riemannian manifolds satisfying Robin boundary conditions. These problems arise in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-27 Catherine Bandle , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

In this paper we establish optimal solvability results, that is, maximal regularity theorems, for the Cauchy problem for linear parabolic differential equations of arbitrary order acting on sections of tensor bundles over boundaryless…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Herbert Amann

We study certain obstacle type problems involving standard and nonlocal minimal surfaces. We obtain optimal regularity of the solution and a characterization of the free boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-12 L. Caffarelli , D. De Silva , O. Savin

Let $u$ be a solution to the normalized p-harmonic obstacle problem with $p>2$. That is, $u\in W^{1,p}(B_1(0))$, $2<p<\infty$, $u\ge 0$ and $$ \d\left( |\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right)=\chi_{\{u>0\}}\textrm{ in }B_1(0) $$ where $u(x)\ge 0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 John Andersson

In this paper, we consider a vector-valued one-phase Bernoulli-type free boundary problem on a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ with Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $RCD(K,N)$. We first prove the existence and the local Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Chung-Kwong Chan , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We obtain up to a flat boundary regularity results in parabolic H\"{o}lder spaces for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic equations with oblique boundary conditions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Georgiana Chatzigeorgiou , Emmanouil Milakis

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear free boundary problem $$ {{array}{ll} F(D^2u)=1 & \text{a.e. in}B_1 \cap \Omega |D^2 u| \leq K & \text{a.e. in}B_1\setminus\Omega, {array}. $$ where $K>0$, and $\Omega$ is an unknown open set. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-01 A. Figalli , H. Shahgholian

We consider a nonlinear parabolic problem with nonlinear dynamical boundary conditions of pure-reactive type in a media perforated by periodically distributed holes of size $\varepsilon$. The novelty of our work is to consider a nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 María Anguiano

We study the regularity and well-posedness of physical solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem. Assuming only that the initial temperature is integrable, we prove that the free boundary, known to have jump discontinuities as a function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sebastian Munoz

We prove existence and regularity of solutions to degenerate and singular elliptic free boundary problems, where the volume of the positivity set of the solution is prescribed.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 T. M. Nascimento , X. H. Nguyen , P. R. Stinga

We provide a thorough description of the free boundary for the lower dimensional obstacle problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ up to sets of null $\mathcal{H}^{n-1}$ measure. In particular, we prove (i) local finiteness of the $(n-1)$-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

We prove quasi-monotonicity formulas for classical obstacle-type problems with energies being the sum of a quadratic form with Lipschitz coefficients, and a H\"older continuous linear term. With the help of those formulas we are able to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Matteo Focardi , Maria Stella Gelli , Emanuele Spadaro

We study elliptic and parabolic problems governed by the singular elliptic operators \begin{align*} \mathcal L=y^{\alpha_1}\mbox{Tr }\left(QD^2_xu\right)+2y^{\frac{\alpha_1+\alpha_2}{2}}q\cdot \nabla_xD_y+\gamma y^{\alpha_2}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Giorgio Metafune , Luigi Negro , Chiara Spina