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We study boundary regularity for solutions to a class of equations involving the so called regional fractional Lapacians $(-\Delta)^s_\Omega $, with $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N$. Recall that the regional fractional Laplacians are generated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Mouhamed Moustapha Fall

We study the regularity up to the boundary of solutions to the Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian. We prove that if $u$ is a weak solution of $(-\Delta)^s u=f$ in $\Omega$, $\mathcal N_s u=0$ in $\Omega^c$, then $u$ is $C^\alpha$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Alessandro Audrito , Juan-Carlos Felipe-Navarro , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this note, we use an epiperimetric inequality approach to study the regularity of the free boundary for the parabolic Signorini problem. We show that if the "vanishing order" of a solution at a free boundary point is close to $3/2$ or an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Wenhui Shi

Let $\alpha\in(0,1)$, $\Omega$ be a bounded open domain in $R^N$ ($N\ge 2$) with $C^2$ boundary $\partial\Omega$ and $\omega$ be the Hausdorff measure on $\partial\Omega$. We denote by $\frac{\partial^\alpha \omega}{\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Huyuan Chen , Hichem Hajaiej , Ying Wang

For the parabolic obstacle-problem-like equation $$\Delta u - \partial_t u = \lambda_+ \chi_{\{u>0\}} - \lambda_- \chi_{\{u<0\}} ,$$ where $\lambda_+$ and $\lambda_-$ are positive Lipschitz functions, we prove in arbitrary finite dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-21 Henrik Shahgholian , Nina Uraltseva , Georg S. Weiss

Using a direct approach, we prove a $2$-dimensional epiperimetric inequality for the one-phase problem in the scalar and vectorial cases and for the double-phase problem. From this we deduce, in dimension $2$, the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study the existence of solutions to the fractional elliptic equation (E1) $(-\Delta)^\alpha u+\epsilon g(|\nabla u|)=\nu $ in a bounded regular domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N (N\ge2)$, subject to the condition (E2) $u=0$ in $\Omega^c$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Huyuan Chen , Laurent Veron

In this article, we deal with the fine boundary regularity, a weighted H\"{o}lder regularity of weak solutions to the problem involving the fractional $(p,q)$ Laplacian denoted by $(-\Delta)_{p}^{s} u + (-\Delta)_{q}^{s} u = f(x)$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 R. Dhanya , Ritabrata Jana , Uttam Kumar , Sweta Tiwari

In the junction $\Omega$ of several semi-infinite cylindrical waveguides we consider the Dirichlet Laplacian whose continuous spectrum is the ray $[\lambda_\dagger, +\infty)$ with a positive cut-off value $\lambda_\dagger$. We give two…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Fedor L. Bakharev , Sergei A. Nazarov

We use a characterization of the fractional Laplacian as a Dirichlet to Neumann operator for an appropriate differential equation to study its obstacle problem. We write an equivalent characterization as a thin obstacle problem. In this way…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-31 Luis Caffarelli , Sandro Salsa , Luis Silvestre

In this paper we consider the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for the following class of fractional elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{00} \left\{\begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}u + u &= Q(x)f(u)\;\;\mbox{in}\;\;\R…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Claudianor O. Alves , César E. Torres Ledesma

In the previous work [Interfaces Free Bound., 19, 351-369, 2017], de Queiroz and Shahgholian investigated the regularity of the solution to the obstacle problem with singular logarithmic forcing term \begin{equation*} -\Delta u = \log u \,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Lili Du , Yi Zhou

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $\min\bigl\{-\Delta_p u,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here, $\Delta_p u=\textrm{div}\bigl(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Alessio Figalli , Brian Krummel , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the obstacle problem for integro-differential operators of order $2s$, with $s\in (0,1)$. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^{1,\gamma}$ and $u\in C^{1,s}$ near all regular points. Namely, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Luis Caffarelli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

In this manuscript we deal with regularity issues and the asymptotic behaviour (as $p \to \infty$) of solutions for elliptic free boundary problems of $p-$Laplacian type ($2 \leq p< \infty$): \begin{equation*} -\Delta_p u(x) +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Pablo Blanc , João Vítor da Silva , Julio D. Rossi

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

Building upon the recent results in \cite{FoSp17} we provide a thorough description of the free boundary for the fractional obstacle problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with obstacle function $\varphi$ (suitably smooth and decaying fast at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Matteo Focardi , Emanuele Spadaro

We consider the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{p(x)}+ \lambda \chi_{\{u>0\}} dx$ in the class of functions $W^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$ with $u-\phi_0\in W_0^{1,p(\cdot)}(\Omega)$, for a given $\phi_0\geq 0$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-19 Julián Fernández Bonder , Sandra Martínez , Noemi Wolanski

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