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In this paper we present a survey concerning unconstrained free boundary problems of type $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} F_1(D^2u,\nabla u,u,x)=0 & \text{in }B_1 \cap \Omega ,\\ F_2 (D^2 u,\nabla u,u,x)=0 & \text{in }B_1\setminus\Omega ,\\ u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Alessio Figalli , Henrik Shahgholian

We investigate the obstacle problem for a class of nonlinear equations driven by nonlocal, possibly degenerate, integro-differential operators, whose model is the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator with measurable coefficients. Amongst other…

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We study free boundary problems for incompressible inhomogeneous flows governed by the Navier--Stokes equations, focusing on the regularity and global-in-time well-posedness of solutions in critical functional frameworks for small initial…

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We consider an elliptic Kolmogorov equation $\lambda u - Ku = f$ in a separable Hilbert space $H$. The Kolmogorov operator $K$ is associated to an infinite dimensional convex gradient system: $dX = (AX - DU(X))dt + dW (t)$, where $A $ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Giuseppe Da Prato , Alessandra Lunardi

We present a new parallel computational framework for the efficient solution of a class of $L^2$/$L^1$-regularized optimal control problems governed by semi-linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The main difficulty in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Michael Kartmann , Georg Müller

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 establish generic regularity results of free boundaries for solutions of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$. We prove that, for almost every obstacle, the free boundary contains only regular points up to…

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We consider linear and obstacle problems driven by a nonlocal integral operator, for which nonlocal interactions are restricted to a ball of finite radius. These type of operators are used to model anomalous diffusion and, for a special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Olena Burkovska , Max Gunzburger

In this paper, we explore cooperative and competitive coupled obstacle systems, which, up to now, are new type obstacle systems and formed by coupling two equations belonging to classical obstacle problem. On one hand, applying the…

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A numerical study of an optimal control formulation for a shape optimization problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality is performed. The shape optimization problem is reformulated as a boundary control problem in a fixed…

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We revisit and sharpen the results from our previous work, where we investigated the regularity of the singular set of the free boundary in the nonlinear obstacle problem. As in the work of Figalli-Serra on the classical obstacle problem,…

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Regularity theorems \`a la Avellaneda-Lin are an indispensable part of the modern quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization. While interior regularity results for random elliptic operators have been available for a while, on general…

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We show that the solutions to the nonlocal obstacle problems for the nonlocal $-\Delta_p^s$ operator, when the fractional parameter $s\to\sigma$ for $0<\sigma\leq1$, converge to the solution of the corresponding obstacle problem for…

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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Marcel Nutz , Chenyang Zhong

We propose a local regularization of elliptic optimal control problems which involves the nonconvex $L^q$ fractional penalizations in the cost function. The proposed \emph{Huber type} regularization allows us to formulate the PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Pedro Merino

We discuss the optimal regularity and nondegeneracy of a free boundary problem related to the fractional Laplacian. This work is related to, but addresses a different problem from, recent work of Caffarelli, Roquejoffre, and Sire. A variant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-08 Ray Yang

In this manuscript we prove quantitative homogenization results for the obstacle problem with bounded measurable coefficients. As a consequence, large-scale regularity results both for the solution and the free boundary for the…

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