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In this paper we study the regularity of the optimal sets for the shape optimization problem \[ \min\Big\{\lambda_1(\Omega)+\dots+\lambda_k(\Omega)\ :\ \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d,\ \text{open}\ ,\ |\Omega|=1\Big\}, \] where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Dario Mazzoleni , Susanna Terracini , Bozhidar Velichkov

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

This paper deals with the Lipschitz regularity of minimizers for a class of variational obstacle problems with possible occurance of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. In order to overcome this problem, the availment of the notions of relaxed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Giacomo Bertazzoni , Samuele Riccò

In this work we prove some abstract results about the existence of a minimizer for locally Lipschitz functionals, without any assumption of homogeneity, over a set which has its definition inspired in the Nehari manifold. As applications we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 G. M. Figueiredo , M. T. O. Pimenta

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of viscosity solutions for two-phase free boundary problems for the $p$-Laplacian with non-zero right hand side, where $p\in (1,\infty)$. This is the optimal regularity for the problem. We also obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Fausto Ferrari , Claudia Lederman

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem with variable coefficients and non-zero right hand side. We prove that flat free boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$ using a different approach than the classical supconvolution method of Caffarelli.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-11 Daniela De Silva

We prove that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of two-phase free boundary problems governed by fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators and with non-zero right hand side are $C^{1,\gamma}$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 D. De Silva , F. Ferrari , S. Salsa

In this article, we study a class of fully nonlinear double-divergence systems with free boundaries associated with a minimization problem. The variational structure of Hessian-dependent functional plays a fundamental role in proving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Pêdra D. S. Andrade , Julio C. Correa

In this work we establish the optimal Lipschitz regularity for non-negative almost minimizers of the one-phase Bernoulli-type functional $$ \mathcal{J}_{\mathrm{G}}(u,\Omega) := \int_\Omega \left(\mathrm{G}(|\nabla…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-27 João Vitor da Silva , Analía Silva , Hernán Vivas

We prove some regularity results for a priori bounded local minimizers of non-autonomous integral functionals of the form $$\mathcal{F}(v,\Omega)=\int_\Omega F(x,Dv)dx,$$ under the constraint $v \ge \psi$ a.e. in $\Omega$, where $\psi$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Raffaella Giova , Antonio Giuseppe Grimaldi , Andrea Torricelli

For a fixed constant $\lambda > 0$ and a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with $n \geq 2$, we establish that almost-minimizers (functions satisfying a sort of variational inequality) of the Alt-Caffarelli type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Pedro Fellype Pontes , João Vitor da Silva , Minbo Yang

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

In this work, we show the generic uniqueness of minimizers for a large class of energies, including the Alt-Caffarelli and Alt-Phillips functionals. We then prove the generic regularity of free boundaries for minimizers of the one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

We study a generalization of the manifold-valued Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model, which involves an initial datum $f$ mapping from a curved compact surface with smooth boundary to a complete, connected and smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Salvador Moll , Vicent Pallardó-Julià

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 this manuscript, we delve into the study of maps $u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega;\overline M)$ that minimize the Alt-Caffarelli energy functional $$ \int_\Omega (|Du|^2 + q^2 \chi_{u^{-1}(M)})\,dx, $$ under the condition that the image $u(\Omega)$…

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

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

We study viscosity solutions to the classical one-phase problem and its thin counterpart. In low dimensions, we show that when the free boundary is the graph of a continuous function, the solution is the half-plane solution. This answers,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Max Engelstein , Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

Using a direct approach, we prove a $2$-dimensional epiperimetric inequality for the one-phase problem in the scalar and vectorial cases and for the double-phase problem. From this we deduce, in dimension $2$, the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Luca Spolaor , Bozhidar Velichkov

We continue the analysis of the two-phase free boundary problems initiated in \cite{DK}, where we studied the linear growth of minimizers in a Bernoulli type free boundary problem at the non-flat points and the related regularity of free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Serena Dipierro , Aram Karakhanyan