Liouville problems in periodic media (i.e. the study of properties of global solutions to PDE) arise both in homogenization and dynamical systems. We discuss some recent results for minimal surfaces and free boundaries.
This is the first in a series of papers where we intend to show, in several steps, the existence of classical (or as classical as possible) solutions to a general two-phase free-boundary system. We plan to do so by: (a) constructing rather weak generalized solutions of the free-boundary problems, (b) showing that the free boundary of such solutions have nice measure theoretical properties (i.e., finite (n-1)-dimensional Hausdorff measure and the associated differentiability...
We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is . The problem is posed in with nonnegative initial data that are integrable and decay at infinity. A previous paper has established the existence of mass-preserving, nonnegative weak solutions satisfying energy estimates and finite propagation. As main results we establish the boundedness and regularity of such weak solutions. Finally, we extend the existence...
We discuss properties (optimal regularity, nondegeneracy, smoothness of the free boundary etc.) of a variational interface problem involving the fractional Laplacian; due to the nonlocality of the Dirichlet problem, the task is nontrivial. This difficulty is bypassed by an extension formula, discovered by the first author and Silvestre, which reduces the study to that of a codimension 2 (degenerate) free boundary.
We give a new proof of the Lipschitz continuity with respect to t of the pressure in a one dimensional porous medium flow. As is shown by the Barenblatt solution, this is the optimal t-regularity for the pressure. Our proof is based on the existence and properties of a certain selfsimilar solution.
Let Ω be a bounded convex domain in Rn with smooth, strictly convex boundary ∂Ω, i.e. the principal curvatures of ∂Ω are all positive. We study the problem of finding a convex function u in Ω such that: det (uij) = 0 in Ω u = φ given on ∂Ω.
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