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In entanglement computations for a free scalar field with coupling to background curvature, there is a boundary term in the modular Hamiltonian which must be correctly specified in order to get sensible results. We focus here on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Christopher P. Herzog , Tatsuma Nishioka

In this paper, by variational and topological arguments based on linking and $\nabla$-theorems, we prove the existence of multiple solutions for the following nonlocal problem with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary data, $$ \left\{…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Alejandro Ortega , Luca Vilasi

This paper addresses the asymptotic development of order 2 by the $\Gamma$ -convergence of the Cahn-Hilliard functional with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The Dirichlet data are assumed to be well separated from one of the two wells. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Irene Fonseca , Leonard Kreutz , Giovanni Leoni

The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump L\'evy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Begoña Barrios , Alessio Figalli , Xavier Ros-Oton

We study the free boundary of solutions to the parabolic obstacle problem with fully nonlinear diffusion. We show that the free boundary splits into a regular and a singular part: near regular points the free boundary is $C^\infty$ in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Alessandro Audrito , Teo Kukuljan

In the junction $\Omega$ of several semi-infinite cylindrical waveguides we consider the Dirichlet Laplacian whose continuous spectrum is the ray $[\lambda_\dagger, +\infty)$ with a positive cut-off value $\lambda_\dagger$. We give two…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Fedor L. Bakharev , Sergei A. Nazarov

The main goal of this paper is the study of two kinds of nonlinear problems depending on parameters in unbounded domains. Using a nonstandard variational approach, we first prove the existence of bounded solutions for nonlinear eigenvalue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Said El Manouni , Hichem Hajaiej , Patrick Winkert

We study the obstacle problem for integro-differential operators of order $2s$, with $s\in (0,1)$. Our main result establishes that the free boundary is $C^{1,\gamma}$ and $u\in C^{1,s}$ near all regular points. Namely, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Luis Caffarelli , Xavier Ros-Oton , Joaquim Serra

We present existence and nonexistence results on the solution of an overdetermined problem for the normalized p-Laplacian in a bounded open set, with p ranging from 1 to infinity. More precisely we consider a non-constant Neumann condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Lucio Cadeddu , Antonio Greco , Benyam Mebrate

We study the structure of solutions of the interior Bernoulli free boundary problem for $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ on an interval $D$ with parameter $\lambda > 0$. In particular, we show that there exists a constant $\lambda_{\alpha,D} > 0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Tadeusz Kulczycki , Jacek Wszoła

In this paper we firstly study the limit of minimizers of the fractional $W^{s,p}$-norms as $p\rightarrow+\infty$ in De Giorgi sense. In particular, we analyzed the $\Gamma$-convergence of non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Raphael Feng Li

We consider the Laplacian in a domain squeezed between two parallel curves in the plane, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions on one of the curves and Neumann boundary conditions on the other. We derive two-term asymptotics for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2011-02-21 David Krejcirik

We develop the free boundary regularity for nonnegative minimizers of the Alt-Phillips functional for negative power potentials $$\int_\Omega \left(\frac 1 2 |\nabla u|^2 + u^{\gamma} \chi_{\{u>0\}}\right) \, dx, \quad \quad \gamma \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We study the one-phase Alt-Phillips free boundary problem, focusing on the case of negative exponents $\gamma \in (-2,0)$. The goal of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we prove smoothness of $C^{1,\alpha}$-regular free boundaries by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Matteo Carducci , Giorgio Tortone

In this paper, we analyze an eigenvalue problem for quasi-linear elliptic operators involving homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a open smooth bounded domain. We show that the eigenfunctions corresponding to the eigenvalues belong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Emmanuel Wend Benedo Zongo , Bernhard Ruf

In this article we study for the first time the regularity of the free boundary in the one-phase free boundary problem driven by a general nonlocal operator. Our main results establish that the free boundary is $C^{1,\alpha}$ near regular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

As an analogue of the topological boundary of discrete groups $\Gamma$, we define the noncommutative topological boundary of tracial von Neumann algebras $(M, \tau)$ and apply it to generalize the main results of [AHO23], showing that for a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Shuoxing Zhou

In this paper, we mainly establish the existence of at least three non-trivial solutions for a class of nonhomogeneous quasilinear elliptic systems with Dirichlet boundary value or Neumann boundary value in a bounded domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Xiaoli Yu , Xingyong Zhang

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

In this paper, we study superlinear systems that give rise to free boundaries. Such systems appear for example from the minimization of the energy functional $$ \int_{\Omega}\left(|\nabla\mathbf{u}|^2+\frac2p|\mathbf{u}|^p\right),\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Daniela De Silva , Seongmin Jeon , Henrik Shahgholian