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    3 February 2014
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    The interesting paper under review deals with local properties near the free boundary for minimizers of the energy functional \[ J(u)={1\over2}\int_{{\mathbb R}^n\times {\mathbb R}_+} y^{1-2\sigma} (\nabla u)^2\;dxdy+ \int_{\{y=0\}} u^\gamma\;dx\quad \text{subject to}\;u\geq0, \] where \((x,y)\) lies in the upper half-space \({\mathbb R}^n\times {\mathbb R}_+\) and \(0<\sigma,\;\gamma<1\). The first term of the energy functional is related to the fractional Laplace operator, while the second one is thought of as imposing an energy penalty when \(u > 0.\) When the local values of \(u\) are sufficiently small, the set \(\{u = 0\}\) is nontrivial, lying on \(\{y = 0\},\) and its boundary is called the free boundary. The author proves that in any neighborhood of a free boundary point, the minimizer is bounded by a power of the distance to the free boundary. Namely, if \(0\) is a free boundary point, then \(\sup_{x\in B_r}u(x,0)\leq Cr^\beta\) and this, combined with the interior estimates, implies \(C^\beta\)-regularity of the energy minimizers with a Hölder seminorm depending only on the distance to the free boundary. The exponent \(\beta={{2\sigma}\over{2-\gamma}}\) is the critical scaling exponent for the problem and gives the optimal regularity of \(u.\) Precisely, the author proves also that \(\sup_{x\in B_r}u(x,0)\geq C'r^\beta\) in any ball of radius \(r\) about a free boundary point, where the constant \(C'\) depends only on \(n,\) \(\sigma\) and \(\gamma.\) In the course of proving the optimal regularity, the author derives also an improvement of the boundary Harnack inequality of due to \textit{L. Caffarelli} et~al. [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 30, 621--640 (1981; Zbl 0512.35038)], which may be of interest even to researchers not working in free boundaries.
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    Free boundary problem
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    Fractional Laplacian
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    Optimal regularity
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    Harnack inequality
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