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We consider an one-phase free boundary problem for a degenerate fully non-linear elliptic operators with non-zero right hand side. We use the approach present in \cite{DeSilva} to prove that flat free boundaries and Lipschitz free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-19 R. Leitão , G. C Ricarte

In this paper we prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result in dimension two for almost-minimizers of the constrained one-phase Alt-Caffarelli and the two-phase Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman functionals for an energy with variable coefficients. As…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Luca Spolaor , Baptiste Trey , Bozhidar Velichkov

This article is concerned with ``up to $C^{2, \alpha}$-regularity results'' about a mixed local-nonlocal nonlinear elliptic equation which is driven by the superposition of Laplacian and fractional Laplacian operators. First of all, an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Xifeng Su , Enrico Valdinoci , Yuanhong Wei , Jiwen Zhang

In this paper we establish optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity up to the boundary for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with double phase degeneracy law and oblique boundary conditions. The approach developed here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Junior da Silva Bessa , Jehan Oh

We study a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with weight function admitting a discontinuity along a smooth jump interface. In any dimension $N\ge 2$, we show the $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary outside of a singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

We prove new optimal $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for obstacle problems involving evolutionary $p$-Laplace type operators in the degenerate regime $p > 2$. Our main results include the optimal regularity improvement at free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Sunghan Kim , Kaj Nyström

We study the free boundary in an unstable parabolic problem arising from a model in combustion. We consider the physical situation in which the heat advances and prove that the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha/2}$ hypersurface.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Mark Allen , Gilles Bokolo-Tamba

We provide a sharp $C^{1,\alpha}$ estimate up to the boundary for a viscosity solution of a degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equation with the oblique boundary condition on a $C^1$ domain. To this end, we first obtain a uniform boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Sun-Sig Byun , Hongsoo Kim , Jehan Oh

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)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Junior da Silva Bessa , Gleydson C. Ricarte

This is the sequel of the recent work (Du, Huang, Pu, Commun. Math. Phys, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s00220-023-04651-7) on axially symmetric gravity water waves with general vorticities, which has investigated the singular wave profile of the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Lili Du , Chunlei Yang

In this paper, we obtain the boundary pointwise $C^{1,\alpha}$ and $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. I.e., If $\partial \Omega$ is $C^{1,\alpha}$ (or $C^{2,\alpha}$) at $x_0\in \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

This paper concerns the regularity and geometry of the free boundary in the optimal partial transport problem for general cost functions. More specifically, we prove that a $C^1$ cost implies a locally Lipschitz free boundary. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Shibing Chen , Emanuel Indrei

We study the higher regularity of solutions and free boundaries in the Alt-Phillips problem $\Delta u=u^{\gamma-1}$, with $\gamma\in(0,1)$. Our main results imply that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Daniel Restrepo , Xavier Ros-Oton

The non-transversal intersection of the free boundary with the fixed boundary is obtained for nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators when $\Omega = \{\nabla u \neq 0\} \cap \{x_n>0\}$ thereby solving a problem in elliptic theory that in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Emanuel Indrei

In this paper, we establish $C^{1, \alpha}$ regularity upto the boundary for a class of degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. Our main result Theorem 2.1 constitutes the boundary analogue of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Agnid Banerjee , Ram Baran Verma

We propose a method to determine the smoothness of sufficiently flat solutions of one phase Hele-Shaw problems. The novelty is the observation that under a flatness assumption the free boundary --represented by the hodograph transform of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Héctor A. Chang-Lara , Nestor Guillen

This paper deals with the obstacle problem for the infinity Laplacian. The main results are a characterization of the solution through comparison with cones that lie above the obstacle and the sharp $C^{1,1/3}$--regularity at the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Julio D. Rossi , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

We study the regularity of free boundaries in the multiple elastic membrane problem in the plane. We prove the uniqueness of blow-ups, and that the free boundaries are $C^{1,\log}$-curves near a regular intersection point.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Ovidiu Savin , Hui Yu

We study the one-phase Alt-Phillips free boundary problem, focusing on the case of negative exponents $\gamma \in (-2,0)$. The goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we prove smoothness of $C^{1,\alpha}$-regular free boundaries by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Matteo Carducci , Giorgio Tortone