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We prove a regularity theorem for the free boundary of minimizers of the two-phase Bernoulli problem, completing the analysis started by Alt, Caffarelli and Friedman in the 80s. As a consequence, we also show regularity of minimizers of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Guido De Philippis , Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study the branch of semi-stable and unstable solutions (i.e., those whose Morse index is at most one) of the Dirichlet boundary value problem $-\Delta u=\frac{\lambda f(x)}{(1-u)^2}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^N$, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierpaolo Esposito , Nassif Ghoussoub , Yujin Guo

We prove {the first} regularity theorem for the free boundary of solutions to shape optimization problems involving integral functionals, for which the energy of a domain $\Omega$ is obtained as the integral of a cost function $j(u,x)$…

In this paper we consider minimizers of the functional \begin{equation*} \min \big\{ \lambda_1(\Omega)+\cdots+\lambda_k(\Omega) + \Lambda|\Omega|, \ : \ \Omega \subset D \text{ open} \big\} \end{equation*} where $D\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Baptiste Trey

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

In this paper we prove the rectifiability of and measure bounds on the singular set of the free boundary for minimizers of a functional first considered by Alt-Caffarelli. Our main tools are the Quantitative Stratification and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Nick Edelen , Max Engelstein

We examine a variational free boundary problem of Alt-Caffarelli type for the biharmonic operator with Navier boundary conditions in two dimensions. We show interior C2-regularity of minimizers and that the free boundary consists of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Marius Müller

The regularity of the free boundary in optimal transportation is equivalent to that of the potential function along the free boundary. By establishing new geometric estimates of the free boundary and studying the second boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Shibing Chen , Jiakun Liu , Xu-Jia Wang

We study the regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ (and more general integro-differential operators) in the regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. We prove that once the free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Teo Kukuljan

This article is concerned with ``up to $C^{2, \alpha}$-regularity results'' about a mixed local-nonlocal nonlinear elliptic equation which is driven by the superposition of Laplacian and fractional Laplacian operators. First of all, an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Xifeng Su , Enrico Valdinoci , Yuanhong Wei , Jiwen Zhang

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

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 sharp regularity estimates for solutions of obstacle type problems driven by a class of degenerate fully nonlinear operators; more specifically, we consider viscosity solutions of \[ |D u|^\gamma F(x, D^2u) = f(x)\chi_{\{u>\phi\}}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-23 João Vitor Da Silva , Hernán Vivas

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 establish the higher differentiability for the minimizers of the following non-autonomous integral functionals \begin{equation*} \mathcal{F}(u,\Omega):= \, \int_\Omega \sum_{i=1}^{n} \, a_i(x) \lvert u_{x_i} \rvert^{p_i} dx,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Stefania Russo

We prove a regularity result for the unstable elliptic free boundary problem $\Delta u = -\chi_{\{u>0\}}$ related to traveling waves in a problem arising in solid combustion. The maximal solution and every local minimizer of the energy are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Regis Monneau , G. S. Weiss

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 prove sharp boundary regularity of solutions to nonlocal elliptic equations arising from operators comparable to the fractional Laplacian over Reifenberg flat sets and with null exterior condition. More precisely, if the operator has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Adriano Prade

We prove a result of existence of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem for $-\Delta_p u=\mathrm{w}(x)f(u,\nabla u)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$, where $\Delta_p$ is the $p$-Laplacian and $\mathrm{w}$ is a weight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Hamilton Bueno , Grey Ercole , Wenderson Ferreira , Antônio Zumpano

Let $1<q<p$ and $a\in C(\overline{\Omega})$ be sign-changing, where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$. We show that the functional \[ I_{q}(u):=\int_{\Omega}\left( \frac{1}{p}|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Uriel Kaufmann , Humberto Ramos Quoirin , Kenichiro Umezu