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We study nonlinear elliptic equations of the form $F\left(D^{2}u\right)=f\left(u\right)$ where the main assumption on $F$ and $f$ is that there exists a one dimensional solution which solves the equation in all the directions $\xi \in {ℝ}^n$. We show that entire monotone solutions $u$ are one dimensional if their $0$ level set is assumed to be Lipschitz, flat or bounded from one side by a hyperplane.

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for the thin one-phase problem which consists of minimizing the energy functional $E(u,\Omega )={\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{2}dX+{\mathscr{H}}^n(\{u>0\}\cap \{x_{n+1}=0\}),\Omega \subset {ℝ}^{n+1},$ among all functions $u\ge 0$ which are fixed on $\partial \Omega$.