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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

We show that any minimizer of the well-known ACF functional (for the $p$-Laplacian) is a viscosity solution. This allows us to establish a uniform flatness decay at the two-phase free boundary points to improve the flatness, that boils down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Masoud Bayrami-Aminlouee , Morteza Fotouhi

We develop further the strategy implemented in our series of papers on inhomogeneous two-phase fee boundary problems, to show that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of such problems are locally $C^{2,\gamma }.$

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Daniela De Silva , Fausto Ferrari , Sandro Salsa

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the fully nonlinear thin obstacle problem. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^1$ near regular points.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-31 Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We prove that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of two-phase free boundary problems governed by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators and with non-zero right hand side are $C^{1,\gamma}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

We consider fully nonlinear obstacle-type problems of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} F(D^{2}u,x)=f(x) & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\cap\Omega,|D^{2}u|\le K & \text{a.e. in}B_{1}\backslash\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Emanuel Indrei , Andreas Minne

In this article, we prove the local $C^{0,\alpha}$ regularity and provide $C^{0,\alpha}$ estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate, elliptic equations associated to linear or nonlinear Neumann type boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-27 Guy Barles , Francesca Da Lio

In this paper we study a one phase free boundary problem for the p(x)-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side. We prove that the free boundary of a weak solution is a C^1 surface in a neighborhood of every free boundary point. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Claudia Lederman , Noemi Wolanski

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth connected Riemannian manifold. We show an improvement of flatness theorem for hypersurfaces of $M$ of bounded nonlocal mean curvature in the viscosity sense. It implies local $ C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Julien Moy

In this paper, we prove boundary pointwise $C^{k,\alpha}$ regularity for any $k\geq 1$ for fully nonlinear parabolic equations. As an application, we give a direct and short proof of the higher regularity of the free boundaries in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

We prove sharp boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations arising from operators comparable to the fractional Laplacian over Reifenberg flat sets and with null exterior condition. More precisely, if the operator has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adriano Prade

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan

In the seminal paper (Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 282, (1984).), the regularity of the free boundary of two-phase fluid in two dimensions via the so-called ACF energy functional was investigated. It was shown the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Lili Du , Feng Ji

We prove the existence and $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions to nonlocal fully nonlinear elliptic double obstacle problems. We also obtain boundary regularity for these problems. The obstacles are assumed to be Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Mohammad Safdari

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem governed by doubly degenerate fully non-linear elliptic PDEs with non-zero right hand side, which should be understood as an analog (non-variational) of certain double phase functionals in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-04 João Vítor da Silva , Giane C. Rampasso , Gleydson C. Ricarte , Hernán A. Vivas

We obtain optimal boundary and global regularity estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations whose ellipticity degenerates at the critical points of a given solution. We show that any solution is $C^{1,\alpha}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Damião Araújo , Boyan Sirakov

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

This paper is dedicated to a free boundary system arising in the study of a class of shape optimization problems. The problem involves three variables: two functions $u$ and $v$, and a domain $\Omega$; with $u$ and $v$ being both positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Francesco Paolo Maiale , Giorgio Tortone , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this paper we study the existence, the optimal regularity of solutions, and the regularity of the free boundary near the so-called \emph{regular points} in a thin obstacle problem that arises as the local extension of the obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Agnid Banerjee , Donatella Danielli , Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan

In this paper, we prove that flat free boundaries of solutions to inhomogeneous one-phase Stefan problem are $C^{1,\alpha}$. The method consists of employing a hodograph transform and deriving the regularity via a linearization technique,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Fausto Ferrari , Nicolò Forcillo , Davide Giovagnoli , David Jesus