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Existence and uniqueness of the scattering solutions is proved for a class of bounded rough obstacles which is much larger than the class of Lipschitz obstacles. Integral equations method is not used. The approach is based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm , M. Sammartino

In this paper, we study a free boundary problem, which arises from an optimal trading problem of a stock that is driven by a uncertain market status process. The free boundary problem is a variational inequality system of three functions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Chonghu Guan , Jing Peng , Zuo Quan Xu

We study the behavior of solutions to the first-order mean field games system with a local coupling, when the initial density is a compactly supported function on the real line. Our results show that the solution is smooth in regions where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Sebastian Munoz , Alessio Porretta

This paper investigates the regularity of solutions and structural properties of the free boundary for a class of fourth-order elliptic problems with Neumann-type boundary conditions. The singular and degenerate elliptic operators studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Donatella Danielli , Giovanni Gravina

Confinement effects by rigid boundaries in the dynamics of ideal fluids are considered from the perspective of long-wave models and their parent Euler systems, with the focus on the consequences of establishing contacts of material surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-19 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , C. Thomson

The kinetics of interfaces in alloy solidification pose a classic free boundary problem. This paper introduces an approach that amalgamates the distinctive characteristics of sharp and diffuse interface models. The motion of the diffuse…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-31 Chuanqi Zhu , Yuichiro Koizumi

We study higher critical points of the variational functional associated with a free boundary problem related to plasma confinement. Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have already been studied…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-05 David Jerison , Kanishka Perera

The simplest genuinely multidimensional monopolist's problem involves minimizing a linearly perturbed Dirichlet energy among nonnegative convex functions $u$ on an open domain $X \subset [0, \infty)^2$. The geometry of the region of strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Robert J. McCann , Lucas D. O'Brien , Cale Rankin

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

This paper continues to study the monostable cooperative system with nonlocal diffusion and free boundary, which has recently been discussed by [Du and Ni, 2020, arXiv:2010.01244]. We here aim at the four aspects: the first is to give more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Lei Li , Xueping Li , Mingxin Wang

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 a driven many particle system comprising of two identical lanes of finite lengths. On one lane, particles hop diffusively with a bias in a specific direction. On the other lane, particles hop in a specific direction obeying mutual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

We study diffusion-type equations supported on structures that are randomly varying in time. After settling the issue of well-posedness, we focus on the asymptotic behavior of solutions: our main result gives sufficient conditions for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Stefano Bonaccorsi , Francesca Cottini , Delio Mugnolo

A well-known question in classical differential geometry and geometric analysis asks for a description of possible boundaries of $K$-surfaces, which are smooth, compact hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ having constant Gauss curvature equal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Hayk Aleksanyan , Aram L. Karakhanyan

Boundary conditions at the interface between the free-flow region and the adjacent porous medium is a key issue for physically consistent modeling and accurate numerical simulation of flow and transport processes in coupled systems due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Elissa Eggenweiler , Iryna Rybak

We study classical solutions to the one-phase free boundary problem in which the free boundary consists of smooth curves and the components of the positive phase are simply-connected. We show that if two components of the free boundary are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-24 David Jerison , Nikola Kamburov

In this paper, we introduce a modification of the free boundary problem related to optimal stopping problems for diffusion processes. This modification allows the application of this PDE method in cases where the usual regularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Ludger Rüschendorf , Mikhail A. Urusov

This article is devoted to investigate the singular profile of the free boundary of two-dimensional incompressible inviscid fluid with external force near the stagnation point. More precisely, given an external force with some polynomial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Lili Du , Yang Pu , Jing Yang

We provide evidence for the existence of non-trivial unitary conformal boundary conditions for a three-dimensional free scalar field, which can be obtained via a coupling to the m'th unitary diagonal minimal model. For large m we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Connor Behan , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Edoardo Lauria , Balt C. van Rees

The aim of this paper is to study dynamical and topological properties of a flow in the region of influence of an isolated non-saddle set. We see, in particular, that some topological conditions are sufficient to guarantee that these sets…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Héctor Barge , José M. R. Sanjurjo