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A Free Boundary Problem for the Parabolic Poisson Kernel

Analysis of PDEs 2017-09-19 v1

Abstract

We study parabolic chord arc domains, introduced by Hofmann, Lewis and Nystr\"om, and prove a free boundary regularity result below the continuous threshold. More precisely, we show that a Reifenberg flat, parabolic chord arc domain whose Poisson kernel has logarithm in VMO must in fact be a vanishing chord arc domain (i.e. satisfies a vanishing Carleson measure condition). This generalizes, to the parabolic setting, a result of Kenig and Toro and answers in the affirmative a question left open in the aforementioned paper of Hofmann et al. A key step in this proof is a classification of "flat" blowups for the parabolic problem.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1510.05704,
  title  = {A Free Boundary Problem for the Parabolic Poisson Kernel},
  author = {Max Engelstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05704},
  year   = {2017}
}

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91 pages. Comments welcome

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