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In this paper, we study the regularity of the free boundary for minimizers of the Alt-Phillips functional with negative powers \[\mathcal{E}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\frac{1}{2}|\nabla…
We investigate general semilinear (obstacle-like) problems of the form $\Delta u = f(u)$, where $f(u)$ has a singularity/jump at $\{u=0\}$ giving rise to a free boundary. Unlike many works on such equations where $f$ is approximately…
For a parameter $\gamma\in(1,2)$, we study the fully nonlinear version of the Alt-Phillips equation, $F(D^2u)=u^{\gamma-1}$, for $u\ge 0.$ We establish the optimal regularity of the solution, as well as the $C^1$ regularity of the regular…
We study the higher regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems for integro-differential operators. Our main result establishes that, once free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$, then they are $C^\infty$. This completes the study of…
We consider a one-phase free boundary problem involving fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$. D. De Silva, O. Savin, and Y. Sire proved that the flat boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We raise the regularity to $C^{\infty}$, extending…
We study the higher regularity in nonlocal free boundary problems posed for general integro-differential operators of order $2s$. Our main result is for the nonlocal one-phase (Bernoulli) problem, for which we establish that $C^{2,\alpha}$…
We classify nontrivial, nonnegative, positively homogeneous solutions of the equation \begin{equation*} \Delta u=\gamma u^{\gamma-1} \end{equation*} in the plane. The problem is motivated by the analysis of the classical Alt-Phillips free…
We obtain sharp local $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions for singular obstacle problems, Euler-Lagrange equation of which is given by $$ \Delta_p u=\gamma(u-\varphi)^{\gamma-1}\,\text{ in }\,\{u>\varphi\}, $$ for $0<\gamma<1$ and…
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 $\Omega$…
In this paper we are concerned with higher regularity properties of the elliptic system \[ \Delta\mathbf{u}= |\mathbf{u}|^{q-1}\mathbf{u}\chi_{\{|\mathbf{u}|>0\}},\qquad\mathbf{u}=(u^1,\dots,u^m) \] for $0\leq q<1$. We show analyticity of…
We prove $C^{2,\alpha}$ regularity of sufficiently flat free boundaries, for the thin one-phase problem in which the free boundary occurs on a lower dimensional subspace. This problem appears also as a model of a one-phase free boundary…
We consider a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^\alpha$, $0<\alpha <1,$ and we prove that ``flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\gamma}$. We thus extend the known result for the case $\alpha=1/2.$
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be a bounded domain and $\delta(x)$ be the distance of a point $x\in \Omega$ to the boundary. We study the positive solutions of the problem $\Delta u +\frac{\mu}{\delta(x)^2}u=u^p$ in $\Omega$, where $p>0,…
In this article we consider the following boundary value problem \begin{equation*}\label{abs} \left\{ \begin{aligned} F(x,u,Du,D^{2}u)+c(x)u+ p(x)u^{-\alpha}&=0~\text{in}~\Omega\\ u&=0~~\text{on}~~\partial\Omega, \end{aligned} \right.…
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.
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…
We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for a general class of two-phase free boundary problems with non-zero right hand side. We prove that Lipschitz or flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\gamma}$. In particular, viscosity solutions…
In this paper, we prove local $C^{1}$ regularity of free boundaries for the double obstacle problem with an upper obstacle $\psi$, \begin{align*} \Delta u &=f\chi_{\Omega(u) \cap\{ u< \psi\} }+ \Delta \psi \chi_{\Omega(u)\cap \{u=\psi\}},…
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 $C^{2,\gamma }.$
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) +…