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Regularity for non-local almost minimal boundaries and applications

Analysis of PDEs 2011-06-10 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a notion of non-local almost minimal boundaries similar to that introduced by Almgren in geometric measure theory. Extending methods developed recently for non-local minimal surfaces we prove that flat non-local almost minimal boundaries are smooth. This can be viewed as a non-local version of the Almgren-De Giorgi-Tamanini regularity theory. The main result has several applications, among these C1,αC^{1,\alpha} regularity for sets with prescribed non-local mean curvature in LpL^p and regularity of solutions to non-local obstacle problems.

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@article{arxiv.1003.2470,
  title  = {Regularity for non-local almost minimal boundaries and applications},
  author = {M. Cristina Caputo and Nestor Guillen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2470},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Section 2 now has an auxiliary Lemma which is used several times throughout the paper. Section 5 was rewritten with a new construction of the perturbation used to get the Euler-Lagrange inequalities. Proof of Lemma 6.4 was also updated, also updated proof of Monotonicity formula

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