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We establish sharp global regularity results for solutions to nonhomogeneous, nonunifomrly elliptic systems with zero boundary conditions. In particular, we obtain everywhere Lipschitz continuity under borderline Lorentz assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Cristiana De Filippis , Mirco Piccinini

We study existence of solutions for a boundary degenerate (or singular) quasilinear equation in a smooth bounded domain under Dirichlet boundary conditions. We consider a weighted $p-${L}aplacian operator with a coefficient that is {locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Oscar Agudelo , Pavel Drábek

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Morteza Fotouhi , Herbert Koch

We prove existence of strong solutions to a family of some semilinear parabolic free boundary problems by means of elliptic regularization. Existence of solutions is obtained in two steps: we first show some uniform energy estimates and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Alessandro Audrito , Tomás Sanz-Perela

We provide a rather complete description of the sharp regularity theory for a family of heterogeneous, two-phase variational free boundary problems, $\mathcal{J}_\gamma \to $ min, ruled by nonlinear, $p$-degenerate elliptic operators.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Raimundo Leitão , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We prove existence and regularity results for free transmission problems governed by fully nonlinear elliptic equations with nonhomogeneous degeneracies.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Cristiana De Filippis

We study the solvability of the regularity problem for degenerate elliptic operators in the block case for data in weighted spaces. More precisely, let $L_w$ be a degenerate elliptic operator with degeneracy given by a fixed weight $w\in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Pascal Auscher , Li Chen , José María Martell , Cruz Prisuelos-Arribas

This paper deals with regularity theory for two-phase free boundary variational problems ruled by degenerate elliptic operators.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Eduardo V. Teixeira

This paper investigates the regularity of Lipschitz solutions $u$ to the general two-dimensional equation $\text{div}(G(Du))=0$ with highly degenerate ellipticity. Just assuming strict monotonicity of the field $G$ and heavily relying on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Xavier Lamy , Riccardo Tione

We study boundary regularity of viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear degenerate or singular parabolic equations. The gradient-dependent degeneracy or singularity, along with the time derivative, introduces significant challenges beyond…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Hyungsung Yun

We investigate the regularity of the viscosity solutions to a class of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Hamiltonian terms. To overcome the difficulty caused by the simultaneous presence of the general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Wentao Huo , Xiaofeng Jin , Lingwei Ma , Zhenqiu Zhang

In this article we investigate the higher regularity properties of the regular free boundary in the fractional thin obstacle problem. Relying on a Hodograph-Legendre transform, we show that for smooth or analytic obstacles the regular free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Herbert Koch , Angkana Rüland , Wenhui Shi

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

We study a class of second-order boundary-degenerate elliptic equations in two dimensions with minimal regularity assumptions. We prove a maximum principle and a Harnack inequality at the degenerate boundary, and assuming local boundedness,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Brian Weber

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

In this paper we study nonnegative minimizers of general degenerate elliptic functionals, $\int F(X,u,Du) dX \to \min$, for variational kernels $F$ that are discontinuous in $u$ with discontinuity of order $\sim \chi_{\{u > 0 \}}$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-14 Raimundo Leitão , Eduardo V. Teixeira

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $\min\bigl\{-\Delta_p u,\,u-\varphi\bigr\}=0$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here, $\Delta_p u=\textrm{div}\bigl(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\bigr)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Alessio Figalli , Brian Krummel , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this paper we consider nonlinear parabolic systems with elliptic part which can be also degenerate. We prove optimal error estimates for smooth enough solutions. The main novelty, with respect to previous results, is that we obtain the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Luigi C. Berselli , Michael Růžička

We prove boundary H\"older and Lipschitz regularity for a class of degenerate elliptic, second order, inhomogeneous equations in non-divergence form structured on the left-invariant vector fields of the Heisenberg group. Our focus is on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Farhan Abedin , Giulio Tralli

In this paper we study the higher regularity of the free boundary for the elliptic Signorini problem. By using a partial hodograph-Legendre transformation we show that the regular part of the free boundary is real analytic. The first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Herbert Koch , Arshak Petrosyan , Wenhui Shi