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Using reflection positivity techniques we prove the existence of minimizers for a class of mesoscopic free-energies representing 1D systems with competing interactions. All minimizers are either periodic, with zero average, or of constant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-09 Alessandro Giuliani , Joel L. Lebowitz , Elliott H. Lieb

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for the thin one-phase problem which consists of minimizing the energy functional $$\label{E} E(u,\Omega) = \int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 dX + \mathcal{H}^n(\{u>0\} \cap \{x_{n+1} = 0\}), \quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

In this paper we study the local regularity of almost minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x) \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in L^\infty(\Omega)$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-13 Guy David , Tatiana Toro

In this paper, we study local minimizers of a degenerate version of the Alt-Caffarelli functional. Specifically, we consider local minimizers of the functional $J_{Q}(u, \Omega):= \int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2 + Q(x)^2\chi_{\{u>0\}}dx$ where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Sean McCurdy

We obtain a probabilistic proof of the local Lipschitz continuity for the optimal stopping boundary of a class of problems with state space $[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$. To the best of our knowledge this is the only existing proof…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Tiziano De Angelis , Gabriele Stabile

We revisit the question of existence and regularity of minimizers to weighted least gradient problems on a fixed bounded domain, subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition, in the case where the boundary data is continuous and the weight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Andres Zuniga

We consider the area functional for t-graphs in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group and study minimizers of the associated Dirichlet problem. We prove that, under a bounded slope condition on the boundary datum, there exists a unique…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Andrea Pinamonti , Francesco Serra Cassano , Giulia Treu , Davide Vittone

We study a class of semilinear free boundary problems in which admissible functions $u$ have a topological constraint, or spanning condition, on their 1-level set. This constraint forces $\{u=1\}$, which is the free boundary, to behave like…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Michael Novack , Daniel Restrepo , Anna Skorobogatova

We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for a general class of two-phase free boundary problems with non-zero right hand side. We prove that Lipschitz or flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\gamma}$. In particular, viscosity solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

We study higher critical points of the variational functional associated with a free boundary problem related to plasma confinement. Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have already been studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-05 David Jerison , Kanishka Perera

We obtain existence of minimizers for the $p$-capacity functional defined with respect to a centrally symmetric anisotropy for $1 < p<\infty$, including the case of a crystalline norm in $\mathbb R^N$. The result is obtained by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Salvador Moll , Marcos Solera

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of viscosity solutions for two-phase free boundary problems for the $p$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side, where $p\in (1,\infty)$. This is the optimal regularity for the problem. We also obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

We investigate the existence of local minimizers with prescribed $L^2$-norm for the energy functional associated to the mass-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on the product space $\mathbb{R}^N \times M^k$, where $(M^k,g)$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Dario Pierotti , Gianmaria Verzini , Junwei Yu

We consider a nonlocal isoperimetric problem defined in the whole space $\R^N$, whose nonlocal part is given by a Riesz potential with exponent $\alpha\in(0, N-1)$. We show that critical configurations with positive second variation are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Marco Bonacini , Riccardo Cristoferi

We prove that the branching set of a solution to a two-dimensional two-phase Bernoulli problem with constant coefficients is locally finite. We do this via a Weierstrass representation formula, which allows to transform the problem into a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Lorenzo Ferreri , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We explore regularity properties of solutions to a two-phase elliptic free boundary problem near a Neumann fixed boundary in two dimensions. Consider a function u, which is harmonic where it is not zero and satisfies a gradient jump…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-31 Sarah Raynor , John A. Gemmer , Gary Moon

In this paper we prove the local boundedness as well as the local Lipschitz continuity for solutions to a class of obstacle problems of the type $$\min\left\{\int_\Omega {F(x, Dz)}: z\in \mathcal{K}_{\psi}(\Omega)\right\}.$$ Here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Michele Caselli , Michela Eleuteri , Antonia Passarelli di Napoli

We study the regularity of minimizers to the functional \[ J(w)=\int_{\Omega} a^{ij}w_iw_j + Q\chi_{\{w>0\}}, \] over a bounded domain $\Omega$ and among the class of nonnegative functions in $W^{1,2}(\Omega)$ with prescribed boundary data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Mark Allen

We study boundary value problems for bounded uniform domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, with non-Lipschitz (and possibly fractal) boundaries. We prove Poincar\'e inequalities with trace terms and uniform constants for uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Michael Hinz , Anna Rozanova-Pierrat , Alexander Teplyaev

We consider a generalization of the Bernoulli free boundary problem where the underlying differential operator is a nonlocal, non-translation-invariant elliptic operator of order $2s\in (0,2)$. Because of the lack of translation invariance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Stanley Snelson , Eduardo V. Teixeira