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Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-29 David Krejcirik

In this article we investigate two free boundary problems for a Lotka-Volterra competition system in a higher space dimension with sign-changing coefficients. One may be viewed as describing how two competing species invade if they occupy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Yonggang Zhao , Mingxin Wang

We study the free boundary of the porous medium equation with nonlocal drifts in dimension one. Under the assumption that the initial data has super-quadratic growth at the free boundary, we show that the solution is smooth in space and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yuming Paul Zhang

We study a class of free boundary problems of ecological models with nonlocal and local diffusions, which are natural extensions of free boundary problems of reaction diffusion systems in there local diffusions are used to describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jianping Wang , Mingxin Wang

This paper concerns the theoretical and numerical analysis of a free boundary problem for the Laplace equation, with a curvature condition on the free boundary. This boundary is described as the graph of a function, and contact angles are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Ivan Fumagalli

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

We study a class of free boundary systems with nonlocal diffusion, which are natural extensions of the corresponding free boundary problems of reaction diffusion systems. As before the free boundary represents the spreading front of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Yihong Du , Mingxin Wang , Meng Zhao

We consider single-file diffusion in an open system with two species $A,B$ of particles. At the boundaries we assume different reservoir densities which drive the system into a non-equilibrium steady state. As a model we use an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brzank , G. M. Schütz

We introduce a new lattice growth model, which we call boundary sandpile. The model amounts to potential-theoretic redistribution of a given initial mass on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ ($d\geq 2$) onto the boundary of an (a priori) unknown domain. The…

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We report on recent progress in the study of evolution processes involving degenerate parabolic equations what may exhibit free boundaries. The equations we have selected follow to recent trends in diffusion theory: considering anomalous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Juan Luis Vazquez

We consider an epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion and free boundaries, which describes the evolution of an infectious agents with nonlocal diffusion and the infected humans without diffusion, where humans get infected by the agents, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Meng Zhao , Yang Zhang , Wan-Tong Li , Yihong Du

In this paper we study a one phase free boundary problem for the p(x)-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side. We prove that the free boundary of a weak solution is a C^1 surface in a neighborhood of every free boundary point. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Claudia Lederman , Noemi Wolanski

We consider free higher derivative theories of scalars and Dirac fermions in the presence of a boundary in general dimension. We establish a method for finding consistent conformal boundary conditions in these theories by removing certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Adam Chalabi , Christopher P. Herzog , Krishnendu Ray , Brandon Robinson , Jacopo Sisti , Andreas Stergiou

Energy-minimizing constraint maps are a natural extension of the obstacle problem within a vectorial framework. Due to inherent topological constraints, these maps manifest a diverse structure that includes singularities similar to harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Alessio Figalli , André Guerra , Sunghan Kim , Henrik Shahgholian

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

We study the existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions of the equation $f_t = \Delta_p f = \text{div} (|Df|^{p-2} Df)$ under over-determined boundary conditions $f = 0$ and $|Df| = 1$. We show that if the initial data is concave and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Tung To

In this paper we study a mass-constrained free boundary problem modeling cell polarization, in the regime where the mass is small. In the generic case of a signal with nondegenerate maxima, we prove that the solution converges locally to a…

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We propose finite difference methods for degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations and prove the convergence of the schemes. Our focus is on the pure equation and a related free boundary problem of transmission type. The cornerstone of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Edgard A. Pimentel , Ercília Sousa

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

We show a result of maximal regularity in spaces of H\"older continuous function, concerning linear parabolic systems, with dynamic or Wentzell boundary conditions, with an elliptic diffusion term on the boundary.

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