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We study a class of Landau-de Gennes energy functionals with a sextic bulk energy density in a three-dimensional domain. We examine the asymptotic behavior of uniformly bounded minimizers in two distinct scenarios: one where their energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Wei Wang , Zhifei Zhang

Local volume-constrained minimizers in anisotropic capillarity problems develop free boundaries on the walls of their containers. We prove the regularity of the free boundary outside a closed negligible set, showing in particular the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Guido De Philippis , Francesco Maggi

We show that any minimizer of the well-known ACF functional (for the $p$-Laplacian) is a viscosity solution. This allows us to establish a uniform flatness decay at the two-phase free boundary points to improve the flatness, that boils down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Masoud Bayrami-Aminlouee , Morteza Fotouhi

Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have been extensively studied in the literature. We initiate the corresponding study of higher critical points by considering a superlinear free boundary problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-30 David Jerison , Kanishka Perera

We study the planar least gradient problem with respect to an anisotropic norm $\phi$ for continuous boundary data. We prove existence of minimizers for strictly convex domains $\Omega$. Furthermore, we inspect the issue of uniqueness and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Wojciech Górny

In this paper, we study the regularity of the free boundary for minimizers of the Alt-Phillips functional with negative powers \[\mathcal{E}_{\gamma}(u)=\int_{\Omega}\frac{1}{2}|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Lu Chen , Jiali Lan , Yong Wu

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 study the regularity of minimizers of a two-phase free boundary problem. For a class of n-dimensional convex domains, we establish the Lipschitz continuity of the minimizer up to the fixed boundary under Neumann boundary conditions. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Thomas Beck , David Jerison , Sarah Raynor

This paper concerns the regularity and geometry of the free boundary in the optimal partial transport problem for general cost functions. More specifically, we prove that a $C^1$ cost implies a locally Lipschitz free boundary. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Shibing Chen , Emanuel Indrei

We prove that an a priori BMO gradient estimate for the two phase singular perturbation problem implies Lipschitz regularity for the limits. This problem arises in the mathematical theory of combustion where the reaction-diffusion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Aram Karakhanyan

In this paper, we investigate Bernoulli type free boundary problem on collapsed RCD(K,N)-spaces. We prove the existence of minimizers and prove the local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers provided that the negative part is locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Sitan Lin

This paper is concerned with the existence and regularity of mininizers as well as of corresponding multipliers to an optimal control problem governed by semilinear elliptic equations, in which mixed pointwise control-state constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Vu Huu Nhu , Nguyen Quoc Tuan , Nguyen Bang Giang , Nguyen Thi Thu Huong

Let $N>2$, $p\in \left(\frac{2N}{N+2},+\infty\right)$, and $\Omega$ be an open bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We consider the minimum problem $$ \mathcal{J} (u) := \displaystyle\int_{\Omega } \left(\frac{1}{p}| \nabla u|…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Yuwei Hu , Jun Zheng , Leandro S. Tavares

We continue our study in \cite{FL} on viscosity solutions to a one-phase free boundary problem for the $p(x)$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side. We first prove that viscosity solutions are locally Lipschitz continuous, which is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

We consider semi-stable, radially symmetric, and decreasing solutions of a reaction equation involving the p-Laplacian, where the reaction term is a locally Lipschitz function, and the domain is the unit ball. For this class of radial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-23 Xavier Cabre , Antonio Capella , Manel Sanchon

This paper is concerned with the study of the behavior of the free boundary for a class of solutions to a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem with mixed periodic-Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown that if the free boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Giovanni Gravina , Giovanni Leoni

The repulsion strength at the origin for repulsive/attractive potentials determines the regularity of local minimizers of the interaction energy. In this paper, we show that if this repulsion is like Newtonian or more singular than…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 J. A. Carrillo , M. G. Delgadino , A. Mellet

In this paper, we establish an $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem for minimizers of an Alt-Phillips type functional subject to constraint maps. We prove that under sufficiently small energy, the minimizers exhibit regularity, and hence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Rada Ziganshina

We prove that minimizers of the $L^{d}$-norm of the Hessian in the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^d$ are locally of class $C^{1,\alpha}$. Our findings extend previous results on Hessian-dependent functionals to the borderline case and resonate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Vincenzo Bianca , Edgard A. Pimentel , José Miguel Urbano

We prove existence and regularity of optimal shapes for the problem$$\min\Big\{P(\Omega)+\mathcal{G}(\Omega):\ \Omega\subset D,\ |\Omega|=m\Big\},$$where $P$ denotes the perimeter, $|\cdot|$ is the volume, and the functional $\mathcal{G}$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Guido De Philippis , Jimmy Lamboley , Michel Pierre , Bozhidar Velichkov