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In this paper, we consider a vector-valued one-phase Bernoulli-type free boundary problem on a metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ with Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $RCD(K,N)$. We first prove the existence and the local Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Chung-Kwong Chan , Hui-Chun Zhang , Xi-Ping Zhu

We consider the $2m$-th order elliptic boundary value problem $Lu=f(x,u)$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega$ in $R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The operator $L$ is a uniformly elliptic operator of order $2m$. We assume that for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-19 Wolfgang Reichel , Tobias Weth

In this paper we consider a quasilinear elliptic PDE, $\text{div} (A(x,u) \nabla u) =0$, where the underlying physical problem gives rise to a jump for the conductivity $A(x,u)$, across a level surface for $u$. Our analysis concerns…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Sunghan Kim , Ki-ahm Lee , Henrik Shahgholian

We prove an analogue for a one-phase free boundary problem of the classical gradient bound for solutions to the minimal surface equation. It follows, in particular, that every energy-minimizing free boundary that is a graph is also smooth.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-24 Daniela De Silva , David Jerison

We develop further the strategy implemented in our series of papers on inhomogeneous two-phase fee boundary problems, to show that flat or Lipschitz free boundaries of such problems are locally $C^{2,\gamma }.$

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Daniela De Silva , Fausto Ferrari , Sandro Salsa

In this paper, we consider a free boundary problem of a semilinear nonhomogeneous elliptic equation with Bernoulli's type free boundary. The existence and regularity of the solution to the free boundary problem are established by use of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Jianfeng Cheng , Lili Du

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

We study a two-phase free boundary problem in which the two-phases satisfy an impenetrability condition. Precisely, we have two ordered positive functions, which are harmonic in their supports, satisfy a Bernoulli condition on the one-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Lorenzo Ferreri , Bozhidar Velichkov

We prove Lipschitz continuity of solutions to a class of rather general two-phase anisotropic free boundary problems in 2D and we classify global solutions. As a consequence, we obtain $C^{2,1}$ regularity of solutions to the Bellman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Luis Caffarelli , Daniela De Silva , Ovidiu Savin

We consider an overdetermined problem for a two phase elliptic operator in divergence form with piecewise constant coefficients. We look for domains such that the solution $u$ of a Dirichlet boundary value problem also satisfies the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Lorenzo Cavallina

We obtain a universal energy estimate up to the boundary for stable solutions of semilinear equations with variable coefficients. Namely, we consider solutions to $- L u = f(u)$, where $L$ is a linear uniformly elliptic operator and $f$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Iñigo U. Erneta

We show that the elliptic equation with a non-Lipschitz right-hand side, $-\Delta u = \lambda |u|^{\beta-1}u - |u|^{\alpha-1}u$ with $\lambda>0$ and $0<\alpha<\beta<1$, considered on a smooth star-shaped domain $\Omega$ subject to zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Vladimir Bobkov , Pavel Drábek , Yavdat Ilyasov

We study the monotonicity and one-dimensional symmetry of positive solutions to the problem $-\Delta_p u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N_+$ under zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where $p>1$ and $f:(0,+\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-14 Phuong Le

We establish sharp regularity for the value function, the pressure, and the free boundary in one-dimensional first-order mean field games with power coupling and compactly supported density. Under a standard nondegeneracy assumption on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sebastian Munoz

We consider the singular boundary-value problem \Delta u = f(u) in D; u|_dD= phi, where 1. D is a bounded C^2-domain of R^d, d >= 3 2. f: (0,1) -> (0,1) is a locally H\"older continuous function such that f(u) -> 1 as u -> 0 at the rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Siva Athreya

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 show the existence of a Lipschitz viscosity solution $u$ in $\Omega$ to a system of fully nonlinear equations involving Pucci-type operators. We study the regularity of the interface $\partial \{ u> 0 \}\cap\Om$ and we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Luis Caffarelli , Stefania Patrizi , Veronica Quitalo , Monica Torres

In this paper, we consider the following semilinear vector-valued minimization problem $$\min\left\{\int_{D}({|\nabla\mathbf{u}|}^2 + F(|\mathbf{u}|))dx: \ \ \mathbf{u}\in W^{1,2}(D; \mathbb{R}^m) \ \text{and} \ \mathbf{u}=\mathbf{g}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 L. L. Du , Y. Zhou

We prove a quantitative inhomogeneous Hopf-Oleinik lemma for viscosity solutions of $$|\nabla u|^{\alpha}F(D^{2}u)=f $$ and, more generally, for viscosity supersolutions of $|\nabla u|^{\alpha}\,{M}^-_{\lambda,\Lambda}(D^{2}u)\le f$. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Davide Giovagnoli , Enzo Maria Merlino , Diego Moreira

Let $u$ be a weak solution of the free boundary problem $$\mathcal L u=\lambda_0 \mathcal H^1\lfloor\partial\{u>0\}, u\ge 0,$$ where $\mathcal L u={\text{div}}(g(\nabla u)\nabla u)$ is a quasilinear elliptic operator and $g(\xi)$ is a given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Aram L. Karakhanyan