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We prove optimal boundary $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity for viscosity solutions of degenerate fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations with oblique boundary conditions and Hamiltonian terms of the form \[ \begin{cases} |Du|^{\gamma}F(D^2 u)…

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We study non-variational degenerate elliptic equations with high order singular structures. No boundary data are imposed and singularities occur along an {\it a priori} unknown interior region. We prove that positive solutions have a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Eduardo V. Teixeira

We study a series of regularity results for solutions to a degenerate or singular fully nonlinear integro-differential equation of the form $$- \big( \sigma_{1}(|Du|) + a(x) \sigma_{2}(|Du|) \big) \mathcal{I}_{\tau}(u,x) = f(x).$$ In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Jiangwen Wang , Feida Jiang

In this paper we are concerned with global maximal regularity estimates for elliptic equations with degenerate weights. We consider both the linear case and the non-linear case. We show that higher integrability of the gradients can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Anna Kh. Balci , Sun-Sig Byun , Lars Diening , Ho-Sik Lee

We study degenerate fully nonlinear free transmission problems, where the degeneracy rate varies in the domain. We prove optimal pointwise regularity depending on the degeneracy rate. Our arguments consist of perturbation methods, relating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-04 David Jesus

Our principal object of study is the modulus of continuity of a periodic or uniformly vanishing function \( u: \mathbb{R} ^{n} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) which satisfies a degenerate elliptic equation \( F(x, u, \nabla u, D^{2} u) = 0 \) in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Thalia Jeffres , Xiaolong Li

In this paper we obtain interior regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of nonlocal Dirichlet problems that degenerate when the gradient of the solution vanishes. Interior H\"older estimates are obtained when the order of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Disson Dos Prazeres , Erwin Topp

We consider a nonlocal aggregation equation with nonlinear diffusion which arises from the study of biological aggregation dynamics. As a degenerate parabolic problem, we prove the well-posedness, continuation criteria and smoothness of…

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We establish boundary regularity estimates for elliptic systems in divergence form with VMO coefficients. Additionally, we obtain nondegeneracy estimates of the Hopf-Oleinik type lemma for elliptic equations. In both cases, the moduli of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Hongjie Dong , Seongmin Jeon

We establish new, optimal gradient continuity estimates for solutions to a class of 2nd order partial differential equations, $\mathscr{L}(X, \nabla u, D^2 u) = f$, whose diffusion properties (ellipticity) degenerate along the \textit{a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-22 Damião J. Araújo , Gleydson C. Ricarte , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions $u(x)\ge 0$ to the semilinear diffusion equation $\mathcal{L} u= f(u)$, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N$ with appropriate homogeneous Dirichlet or outer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Matteo Bonforte , Alessio Figalli , Juan Luis Vazquez

We obtain new oscillation and gradient bounds for the viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations where the Hamiltonian is a sum of a sublinear and a superlinear part in the sense of Barles and Souganidis (2001). We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Olivier Ley , Vinh Duc Nguyen

We consider a class of degenerate elliptic fully nonlinear equations with applications to Grad equations: \begin{align} \begin{cases} |Du|^\gamma \mathcal{M}_{\lambda,\Lambda}^+\big(D^2u(x)\big)=f\big(|u\geq u(x)|\big) &\text{ in }\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Priyank Oza

We prove the global regularity of smooth solutions for a dissipative surface quasi-geostrophic equation with both velocity and dissipation logarithmically supercritical compared to the critical equation. By this, we mean that a symbol…

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We provide a rather complete description of the sharp regularity theory for a family of heterogeneous, two-phase variational free boundary problems, $\mathcal{J}_\gamma \to $ min, ruled by nonlinear, $p$-degenerate elliptic operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Raimundo Leitão , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We consider the value function of a stochastic optimal control of degenerate diffusion processes in a domain $D$. We study the smoothness of the value function, under the assumption of the non-degeneracy of the diffusion term along the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Wei Zhou

We investigate the regularity of the viscosity solutions to a class of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Hamiltonian terms. To overcome the difficulty caused by the simultaneous presence of the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Wentao Huo , Xiaofeng Jin , Lingwei Ma , Zhenqiu Zhang

We study global regularity of nonlinear systems of partial differential equations depending on the symmetric part of the gradient with Dirichlet boundary conditions. These systems arise from variational problems in plasticity with power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Linus Behn , Lars Diening

As an application of the theory of linear parabolic differential equations on noncompact Riemannian manifolds, developed in earlier papers, we prove a maximal regularity theorem for nonuniformly parabolic boundary value problems in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Herbert Amann

We prove regularity and stochastic homogenization results for certain degenerate elliptic equations in nondivergence form. The equation is required to be strictly elliptic, but the ellipticity may oscillate on the microscopic scale and is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Scott N. Armstrong , Charles K. Smart