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In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of the free boundary of the solution to the exterior Bernoulli problem for the half Laplacian when the Bernoulli's gradient parameter tends to $0^+$ and to $+\infty$. Moreover, we show that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sven Jarohs , Tadeusz Kulczycki , Paolo Salani

We study a general class of elliptic free boundary problems equipped with a Dirichlet boundary condition. Our primary result establishes an optimal $C^{1,1}$-regularity estimate for $L^p$-strong solutions at points where the free and fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Damião J. Araújo , Andreas Minne , Edgard A. Pimentel

In this paper, we prove boundary pointwise $C^{k,\alpha}$ regularity for any $k\geq 1$ for fully nonlinear parabolic equations. As an application, we give a direct and short proof of the higher regularity of the free boundaries in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Yuanyuan Lian , Kai Zhang

We study the regularity of minimizers of a multiphase vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem. This problem consists in a minimization problem for the Bernoulli functional over families of Sobolev functions with disjoint supports and non…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Giovanni Siclari , Bozhidar Velichkov

Bernoulli's free boundary problem is an overdetermined problem in which one seeks an annular domain such that the capacitary potential satisfies an extra boundary condition. There exist two different types of solutions called elliptic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Antoine Henrot , Michiaki Onodera

In this paper we study the fully nonlinear free boundary problem $$ {{array}{ll} F(D^2u)=1 & \text{a.e. in}B_1 \cap \Omega |D^2 u| \leq K & \text{a.e. in}B_1\setminus\Omega, {array}. $$ where $K>0$, and $\Omega$ is an unknown open set. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-01 A. Figalli , H. Shahgholian

We study the regularity of the "free surface" in boundary obstacle problems. We show that near a non-degenerate point the free boundary is a $C^{1,\alpha}$ $(n-2)$-dimensional surface in $\real^{n-1}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Athanasopoulos , L. A. Caffarelli , S. Salsa

We establish sharp $C^{2s}$ interior regularity estimates for solutions of fully nonlinear nonlocal equations with bounded right hand side. More precisely, we show that if $I$ is a fully nonlinear nonlocal concave or convex elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Hernán Vivas

We consider viscosity solution to one-phase free boundary problems for general fully nonlinear operators and free boundary condition depending on the normal vector. We show existence of viscosity solutions via the Perron's method and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Matteo Carducci , Bozhidar Velichkov

In this article we use flatness improvement argument to study the regularity of the free boundary for the biharmonic obstacle problem with zero obstacle. Assuming that the solution is almost one-dimensional, and that the non-coincidence set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Gohar Aleksanyan

In this paper we prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result in dimension two for almost-minimizers of the constrained one-phase Alt-Caffarelli and the two-phase Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman functionals for an energy with variable coefficients. As…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Luca Spolaor , Baptiste Trey , Bozhidar Velichkov

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem governed by doubly degenerate fully non-linear elliptic PDEs with non-zero right hand side, which should be understood as an analog (non-variational) of certain double phase functionals in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-04 João Vítor da Silva , Giane C. Rampasso , Gleydson C. Ricarte , Hernán A. Vivas

We prove that $C^{1,\alpha}$ $s$-minimal surfaces are automatically $C^\infty$. For this, we develop a new bootstrap regularity theory for solutions of integro-differential equations of very general type, which we believe is of independent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Begoña Barrios Barrera , Alessio Figalli , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary for a vector-valued Bernoulli problem, with no sign assumptions on the boundary data. More precisely, given an open, smooth set of finite measure $D\subset \mathbb{R}^d$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Dario Mazzoleni , Susanna Terracini , Bozhidar Velichkov

We establish sharp interior and boundary regularity estimates for solutions to $\partial_t u - L u = f(t, x)$ in $I\times \Omega$, with $I \subset \mathbb{R}$ and $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^n$. The operators $L$ we consider are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the regularity of the free boundary in one-phase Stefan problem with nonlinear operator. Using the Hodograph transform and a linearization technique, we prove that flat free boundaries are $C^{1, \alpha}$ in space and time. When…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Yamin Wang

We investigate the regularity of the free boundary for the Signorini problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. It is known that regular points are $(n-1)$-dimensional and $C^\infty$. However, even for $C^\infty$ obstacles $\varphi$, the set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

In this work we demonstrate that a class of some one and two phase free boundary problems can be recast as nonlocal parabolic equations on a submanifold. The canonical examples would be one-phase Hele Shaw flow, as well as its two-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Hector A. Chang-Lara , Nestor Guillen , Russell W. Schwab

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\}},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park , Henrik Shahgholian

We prove optimal regularity and derive several geometric properties for solutions of a free boundary problem with fractional diffusion. Additionally, we deduce local $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity results for the corresponding interior and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Diego Marcon , Rafayel Teymurazyan