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The theory of boundary regularity for $p$-harmonic functions is extended to unbounded open sets in complete metric spaces with a doubling measure supporting a $p$-Poincar\'e inequality, $1<p<\infty$. The barrier classification of regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Anders Björn , Daniel Hansevi

We give dimension-free regularity conditions for a class of possibly degenerate sub-elliptic equations in the Heisenberg group exhibiting super-quadratic growth in the horizontal gradient; this solves an issue raised by Manfredi & Mingione…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Giuseppe Mingione , Anna Zatorska-Goldstein , Xiao Zhong

In this paper, we consider a free boundary problem with volume constraint. We show that positive minimizer is locally Lipschitz and the free boundary is analytic away from a singular set with Hausdorff dimension at most $n-8$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huiqiang Jiang

In this work we develop a systematic geometric approach to study fully nonlinear elliptic equations with singular absorption terms as well as their related free boundary problems. The magnitude of the singularity is measured by a negative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Damião Araújo , Eduardo V. Teixeira

The simplest genuinely multidimensional monopolist's problem involves minimizing a linearly perturbed Dirichlet energy among nonnegative convex functions $u$ on an open domain $X \subset [0, \infty)^2$. The geometry of the region of strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Robert J. McCann , Lucas D. O'Brien , Cale Rankin

This paper investigates degenerate nonlocal free boundary problems arising in the context of superconductivity, extending the nonlocal counterpart to the work of Caffarelli, Salazar, and Shahgholian \cite{CS02, CSS04} in the local setting.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Damião J. Araújo , Aelson Sobral

We continue our study of the free boundary regularity in the thin one-phase problem and show that $C^{2,\alpha}$ free boundaries are smooth.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

The free-boundary compressible 1-D Euler equations with moving physical vacuum boundary are a system of hyperbolic conservation laws which are both characteristic and degenerate. The physical vacuum singularity (or rate-of-degeneracy)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-19 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

In this paper, we present a problem involving fully nonlinear elliptic operators with Hamiltonian, which can present a singularity or degenerate as the gradient approaches the origin. The model studied here, allows the appearance of plateau…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Rafael R. Costa , Ginaldo S. Sá

We study the singular part of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian, \ $\min\bigl\{(-\Delta)^su,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\mathbb R^n$, for general obstacles $\varphi$. Our main result establishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Nicola Garofalo , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the boundary regularity of solutions to the porous medium equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$ in the degenerate range $m>1$. In particular, we show that in cylinders the Dirichlet problem with positive continuous boundary data on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Anders Björn , Jana Björn , Ugo Gianazza , Juhana Siljander

We show that for any uniformly parabolic fully nonlinear second-order equation with bounded measurable "coefficients" and bounded "free" term in any cylindrical smooth domain with smooth boundary data one can find an approximating equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-23 Hongjie Dong , Nicolai V. Krylov

In an earlier paper the authors provided general conditions on a real codimension 2 submanifold $S\subset C^{n}$, $n\ge 3$, such that there exists a possibly singular Levi-flat hypersurface $M$ bounded by $S$. In this paper we consider the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Pierre Dolbeault , Giuseppe Tomassini , Dmitri Zaitsev

We introduce a notion of non-local almost minimal boundaries similar to that introduced by Almgren in geometric measure theory. Extending methods developed recently for non-local minimal surfaces we prove that flat non-local almost minimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-10 M. Cristina Caputo , Nestor Guillen

In this paper, we study the compactness of a boundary value problem for hyperkaehler 4-manifolds. We show that under certain topological conditions and the positive mean curvature condition on the boundary, a sequence of hyperkaehler…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Hongyi Liu

In this article we study a Bernoulli-type free boundary problem and generalize a work of Henrot and Shahgholian in \cite{HS1} to $\mathcal{A}$-harmonic PDEs. These are quasi-linear elliptic PDEs whose structure is modeled on the $p$-Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Murat Akman , Agnid Banerjee , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

We investigate the $\phi^{2n}$ deformations of the O($N$)-symmetric (generalized) free theories with a flat boundary, where $n\geqslant 2$ is an integer. The generalized free theories refer to the $\Box^k$ free scalar theories with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Yongwei Guo , Wenliang Li

We are concerned with the global bifurcation analysis of positive solutions to free boundary problems arising in plasma physics. We show that in general, in the sense of domain variations, the following alternative holds: either the shape…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Daniele Bartolucci , Yeyao Hu , Aleks Jevnikar , Wen Yang

We consider the exterior free boundary Bernoulli problem in the case of a rough given domain. An asymptotic analysis shows that the solution of the initial problem can be approximated by the solution of a non-rough Bernoulli problem at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Bouchon François , Chupin Laurent

We consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering by a compact sound-soft obstacle $\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 2$) that has connected complement $\Omega := \mathbb{R}^n\setminus \Gamma$. This scattering problem is modelled by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Simon N. Chandler-Wilde , Siavash Sadeghi