On two phase free boundary problems governed by elliptic equations with distributed sources (Q2438048)

This survey article describes recent results concerning the problem \(Lu=f\) in \(\Omega^+ (u)\cup \Omega^-(u)\), and \(u_\nu^+=G(u_\nu^-,x)\) on \(F(u)=\partial \Omega^+ \cap \Omega \). Here, \(\Omega \) is a bounded domain in \(R^n\), \(\Omega^+(u)=\{ x\in \Omega ; u(x)>0\} \), \(\Omega^-(u)=\{ x\in \Omega ;u(x)\leq 0\}\), \(f\) is bounded on \(\Omega \) and continuous in \(\Omega^+(u)\cup \Omega^-(u)\), while \(u_\nu^+\), \(u_\nu^-\) denote the normal derivatives in the inward direction to \(\Omega^+\) and \(\Omega^-\), respectively. The operator \(L\) is uniformly elliptic in nondivergence form \(Lu =\mathrm{Tr}\;(A(x)D^2 u)+b(x)\cdot \nabla u\) with Hölder continuous coefficients, or a fully nonlinear, that is, \(Lu=T(D^2 u)\).