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We study the higher regularity in nonlocal free boundary problems posed for general integro-differential operators of order $2s$. Our main result is for the nonlocal one-phase (Bernoulli) problem, for which we establish that $C^{2,\alpha}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Begoña Barrios , Xavier Ros-Oton , Marvin Weidner

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 the optimization problem of minimizing $\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^p dx$ with a constrain on the volume of $\{u>0\}$. We consider a penalization problem, and we prove that for small values of the penalization parameter, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julian Fernandez Bonder , Sandra Martinez , Noemi Wolanski

We provide regularity results at the boundary for continuous viscosity solutions to nonconvex fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations and inequalities in Euclidian domains. We show that (i) any solution of two sided inequalities with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-01 Luis Silvestre , Boyan Sirakov

In the unit ball B(0,1), let $u$ and $\Omega$ (a domain in $\R$) solve the following overdetermined problem: $$\Delta u =\chi_\Omega\quad \hbox{in} B(0,1), \qquad 0 \in \partial \Omega, \qquad u=|\nabla u |=0 \quad \hbox{in} B(0,1)\setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis A. Caffarelli , Lavi Karp , Henrik Shahgholian

In this paper, we establish a $C^{1,\alpha}$-regularity theorem for almost-minimizers of the functional $\mathcal{F}_{\varepsilon,\gamma}=P-\gamma P_{\varepsilon}$, where $\gamma\in(0,1)$ and $P_{\varepsilon}$ is a nonlocal energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Michael Goldman , Benoît Merlet , Marc Pegon

We will show optimal regularity for minimizers of the Signorini problem for the Lame system. In particular if $\u=(u^1,u^2,u^3)\in W^{1,2}(B_1^+:\R^3)$ minimizes $$ J(\u)=\int_{B_1^+}|\nabla \u+\nabla^\bot \u|^2+\lambda\div(\u)^2 $$ in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-10 John Andersson

It is established $L^{p}$ estimates for the fractional $\Phi$-Laplacian operator defined in bounded domains where the nonlinearity is subcritical or critical in a suitable sense. Furthermore, using some fine estimates together with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 M. L. Carvalho , E. D. Silva , J. C. de Albuquerque , S. Bahrouni

We continue our study of the free boundary regularity in the thin one-phase problem and show that $C^{2,\alpha}$ free boundaries are smooth.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

In this paper, with a fixed $p\in (1,+\infty)$ and a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ whose boundary $\partial\Omega$ fulfills the $C^1$ regularity, we study a boundary value problem involving a nonlocal operator assigning to…

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In this article we study solutions to the (interior) thin obstacle problem under low regularity assumptions on the coefficients, the obstacle and the underlying manifold. Combining the linearization method of Andersson \cite{An16} and the…

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We start the investigation of free boundary variational models featuring varying singularities. The theory depends strongly on the nature of the singular power $\gamma(x)$ and how it changes. Under a mild continuity assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Damião Araújo , Aelson Sobral , Eduardo V. Teixeira , José Miguel Urbano

This paper investigates a class of $p$-obstacle problems with subcritical exponents having the form \begin{align} \mathrm{div}\left( a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right) =m_1\chi_{\{u>0\}}-m_2u^{\lambda-1}\chi_{\{u>0\}} \ \text{in}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jing Yu , Jun Zheng

We consider elliptic operators with measurable coefficients and Robin boundary conditions on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and show that the first eigenfunction $v$ satisfies $v(x) \ge \delta > 0$ for all $x \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Wolfgang Arendt , A. F. M. ter Elst , Jochen Glück

In this paper, we study local regularity properties of minimizers of nonlocal variational functionals with variable exponents and weak solutions to the corresponding Euler--Lagrange equations. We show that weak solutions are locally bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Jamil Chaker , Minhyun Kim

We consider functionals of the form $$\mathcal{F}(u):=\int_\Omega\!F(x,u,\nabla u)\,\mathrm{d} x,$$ where $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$ is open and bounded. The integrand $F\colon\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}^{N\times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Judith Campos Cordero

We prove new boundary regularity results for minimizers to the one-phase Alt-Caffarelli functional (also known as Bernoulli free boundary problem) in the case of continuous and H\"older-continuous boundary data. As an application, we use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xavier Fernández-Real , Florian Gruen

We consider the fourth order problem $\Delta^{2}u=\lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ with the Navier boundary condition $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Here, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter and $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 A. Aghajani

We deal with existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of an elliptic boundary value problem modeled by \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta_p u= \frac{f}{u^\gamma} + g u^q & \mbox{in $\Omega$,} \\ u = 0 & \mbox{on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Riccardo Durastanti , Francescantonio Oliva