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Regularity of the singular set in the fully nonlinear obstacle problem

Analysis of PDEs 2020-03-16 v2

Abstract

For the obstacle problem involving a convex fully nonlinear elliptic operator, we show that the singular set in the free boundary stratifies. The top stratum is locally covered by a C1,αC^{1,\alpha}-manifold, and the lower strata are covered by C1,logεC^{1,\log^\varepsilon}-manifolds. This essentially recovers the regularity result obtained by Figalli-Serra when the operator is the Laplacian.

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@article{arxiv.1905.02308,
  title  = {Regularity of the singular set in the fully nonlinear obstacle problem},
  author = {Ovidiu Savin and Hui Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.02308},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

37 pages. Now with more details and explanations in Section 5, following the suggestion of a referee

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