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In this paper we study the free boundary regularity for almost-minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} J(u)=\int_{\mathcal O} |\nabla u(x)|^2 +q^2_+(x)\chi_{\{u>0\}}(x) +q^2_-(x)\chi_{\{u<0\}}(x)\ dx \end{equation*} where $q_\pm \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Guy David , Max Engelstein , Tatiana Toro

We prove existence of solutions to problems whose model is $$\begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta_p u + u^q = \frac{f}{u^\gamma} & \text{in}\ \Omega, \newline u\ge0 &\text{in}\ \Omega,\newline u=0 &\text{on}\ \partial\Omega, \end{cases}$$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Francescantonio Oliva

In this paper, we study the regularity of the solution for the obstacle problem associated with the linearized Monge-Amp\`ere operator: \begin{align*} \begin{cases} &u\geq\varphi \text{\quad in } \Omega &L_{ w}u=\tr( W D^{2}u)\leq 0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Meng Ji

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian under the assumption that the obstacle $\varphi$ satisfies $\Delta \varphi\leq 0$ near the contact region. Our main result establishes that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper, we investigate the borderline regularity of local minimizers of energy functionals under minimal assumptions on the potential term $\sigma$. When $\sigma$ is merely bounded and measurable, we show that sign-changing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Damião J. Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

We study this zero-flux attraction-repulsion chemotaxis model, with linear and superlinear production $g$ for the chemorepellent and sublinear rate $f$ for the chemoattractant: \begin{equation}\label{problem_abstract} \tag{$\Diamond$}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Silvia Frassu , Giuseppe Viglialoro

We study boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-\Delta u+g\circ u=\mu$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset R^N$. Let $\{\mu_n\}$ and $\{\tau_n\}$ be sequences of measure in $\Omega$ and $\partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Mousomi Bhakta , Moshe Marcus

We construct nontrivial smooth bounded domains $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ of the form $\Omega_0 \setminus \overline{\Omega}_1$, bifurcating from annuli, for which there exists a positive solution to the overdetermined boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Nikola Kamburov , Luciano Sciaraffia

We study the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ with initial velocity $u_0$ square-integrable, divergence-free and tangent to $\partial \Omega$. We supplement the equations with the…

We study a Bernoulli type free boundary problem with two phases $$J[u]=\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^2\,dx+\Phi\big({\mathcal M}_-(u), {\mathcal{M}}_+(u)\big), \quad u-\bar u\in W^{1,2}_0(\Omega), $$ where $\bar u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega)$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-27 Serena Dipierro , Aram Karakhanyan , Enrico Valdinoci

For the classical zero-flux chemotaxis-consumption model \begin{equation*} u_t= \Delta u - \chi \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) \quad \textrm{and}\quad v_t=\Delta v- uv, \quad \text{ with } (x,t)\in \Omega \times (0,T_{max}), \end{equation*}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Silvia Frassu , Giuseppe Viglialoro

We prove the uniform boundedness of all solutions for a general class of Dirichlet anisotropic elliptic problems of the form $$-\Delta_{\overrightarrow{p}}u+\Phi_0(u,\nabla u)=\Psi(u,\nabla u) +f $$ on a bounded open subset $\Omega\subset…

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In this paper we are concerned with a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem of interest in thermics, fluid dynamics and electricity. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of the solutions, and we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Donatella Danielli , Rohit Jain

We study a fractional analogue of a plasma problem arising from physics. Specifically, for a fixed bounded domain $\Omega$ we study solutions to the eigenfunction equation \[ (- \Delta)^s u = \lambda(u- \gamma)_+ \] with $u \equiv 0$ on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Mark Allen

It is well known that minimizers of the Allen-Cahn-type functional \[ J_\epsilon(u):=\int_\Omega\frac{\epsilon|\nabla u|^2}{2}+\frac{W(u)}{\epsilon}, \] where $W$ is a double-well potential, resemble minimal surfaces in the sense that their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jingeon An

In this paper we study the following parabolic system \begin{equation*} \Delta \u -\partial_t \u =|\u|^{q-1}\u\,\chi_{\{ |\u|>0 \}}, \qquad \u = (u^1, \cdots , u^m) \ , \end{equation*} with free boundary $\partial \{|\u | >0\}$. For $0\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Gohar Aleksanyan , Morteza Fotouhi , Henrik Shahgholian , Georg S. Weiss

We study regularity issues for systems of elliptic equations of the type \[ -\Delta u_i=f_{i,\beta}(x)-\beta \sum_{j\neq i} a_{ij} u_i |u_i|^{p-1}|u_j|^{p+1} \] set in domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$, for $N \geq 1$. The paper is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Nicola Soave , Hugo Tavares , Susanna Terracini , Alessandro Zilio

It is establish regularity results for weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic problems driven by the well known $\Phi$-Laplacian operator given by \begin{equation*} \left\{\ \begin{array}{cl} \displaystyle-\Delta_\Phi u= g(x,u), &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-04 E. D. Silva , M. L. Carvalho , J. C. de Albuquerque

We study global regularity for solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations of the form $\div \A(x,u,\nabla u) = \div \F $ in rough domains $\Omega$ in $\R^n$ with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The vector field $\A$ is assumed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Truyen Nguyen

Let $0<q<1<p$. In this study, we investigate positive solutions of the logistic elliptic equation $-\Delta u = u(1-u^{p-1})$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq1$, with the nonlinear boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Kenichiro Umezu