Minimization of a fractional perimeter-Dirichlet integral functional (Q494144): Difference between revisions

The very interesting paper under review deals with the regularity properties of the minimizers to energy functionals that combine the Dirichlet energy with the nonlocal perimeter of a level set. Namely, the authors consider the functional \[ J(u)=\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2\;dx + \mathrm{Per}_\sigma (E,\Omega),\quad E=\{u>0\} \text{ in }\Omega, \] with a fixed parameter \(\sigma\in(0,1)\), and where \(\mathrm{Per}_\sigma (E,\Omega)\) stands for the \(\sigma\)-fractional perimeter of the set \(E\) in \(\Omega\). Precise regularity results for the minimizers and for their free boundaries \(\partial\{u>0\}\) are obtained by means of fine blow-up analysis. Moreover, the authors give related results about density estimates, monotonicity formulas, Euler-Lagrange equations and extension problems.