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In a wide class of the so called Obstacle Problems of parabolic type it is shown how to improve the optimal regularity of the solution and as a consequence how to obtain space-time regularity of the corresponding free boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Ioannis Athanasopoulos , Luis Caffarelli , Emmanouil Milakis

This study is devoted to proving the existence of weak solutions for a nonlinear elliptic problem with Neumann-type boundary data. The problem is driven by a discontinuous power nonlinearity and a nonsmooth prescribed data. Additionally, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Debajyoti Choudhuri , Dušan D. Repovš , Kamel Saoudi

The existence of global attractors is investigated for the Signorini problem with pointwise dissipation. It is shown that both the semilinear Signorini problem and the elastic obstacle problem with normal compliance exhibit exponential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Jaime E. Muñoz Rivera , Maria Grazia Naso

The general conditions under which the quadratic, uniform and monotonic convergence in the quasilinearization method of solving nonlinear ordinary differential equations could be proved are formulated and elaborated. The generalization of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Mandelzweig , F. Tabakin

We discuss some regularity issues in the study of the obstacle problem. In particular, we present a recent result by O. Savin and the author on the regularity of the singular set for the obstacle problem with a fully nonlinear elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Hui Yu

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamics of Newton's problem of minimal resistance in radial fields. We move beyond classical translational symmetry to analyze two non-equilibrium scenarios: a scale-invariant free expansion and an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Rafael López

A formulation of Einstein equations is presented that could yield advantages in the study of collisions of binary compact objects during regimes between linear-nonlinear transitions. The key idea behind this formulation is a separation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Pablo Laguna

In this work there is established an optimal existence and regularity theory for second order linear parabolic differential equations on a large class of noncompact Riemannian manifolds. Then it is shown that it provides a general unifying…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Herbert Amann

In this paper we study a rather wide class of quasilinear parabolic problems with nonlinear boundary condition and nonstandard growth terms. It includes the important case of equations with a $p(t,x)$-Laplacian. By means of the localization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Patrick Winkert , Rico Zacher

We study the obstacle problem for parabolic operators of the type $\partial_t + L$, where $L$ is an elliptic integro-differential operator of order $2s$, such as $(-\Delta)^s$, in the supercritical regime $s \in (0,{1/2})$. The best result…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Xavier Ros-Oton , Clara Torres-Latorre

We consider the nonlinear Neumann problem for fully nonlinear elliptic PDEs on a quadrant. We establish a comparison theorem for viscosity sub and supersolutions of the nonlinear Neumann problem. The crucial argument in the proof of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Hitoshi Ishii , Taiga Kumagai

The uniqueness of equilibrium for a compressible, hyperelastic body subject to dead-load boundary conditions is considered. It is shown, for both the displacement and mixed problems, that there cannot be two solutions of the equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Daniel Spector , Scott J. Spector

In this paper we study existence, regularity, and approximation of solution to a fractional semilinear elliptic equation of order $s \in (0,1)$. We identify minimal conditions on the nonlinear term and the source which leads to existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Harbir Antil , Johannes Pfefferer , Mahamadi Warma

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Neumann boundary conditions in a three-dimensional curved thin domain around a given closed surface. When the thickness of the curved thin domain tends to zero, we show that the weighted average…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Tatsu-Hiko Miura

The Signorini problem for the Laplace operator is considered in a general polygonal domain. It is proved that the coincidence set consists of a finite number of boundary parts plus isolated points. The regularity of the solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Thomas Apel , Serge Nicaise

In this article, the structure of the incremental quasistatic contact problem with Coulomb friction in linear elasticity (Signorini-Coulomb problem) is unraveled and sharp existence results are proved for the most general two-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Patrick Ballard , Flaviana Iurlano

For a $n$-dimensional spin manifold $M$ with a fixed spin structure and a spinor bundle $\Sigma M$, we prove an $\epsilon$-regularity theorem for weak solutions to the nonlinear Dirac equation of cubic nonlinearity. This, in particular,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-14 Changyou Wang

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

We prove the Lewy-Stampacchia inequalities for the two obstacles problem in abstract form for T-monotone operators. As a consequence for a general class of quasi-linear elliptic operators of Ladyzhenskaya-Uraltseva type, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-10 J. F. Rodrigues , R. Teymurazyan

The aim of this paper is to study the obstacle problem with an elliptic operator having degenerate coercivity. We prove the existence of an entropy solution to the obstacle problem under the assumption of $L^{1}-$summability on the data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Jun Zheng , Binhua Feng , Zhihua Zhang