Generic regularity of free boundaries for the obstacle problem

DOI10.1007/S10240-020-00119-9MaRDI QIDQ827018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alessio Figalli, Xavier Ros-Oton, Joaquim Serra

Publication date 6 January 2021

Published in Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00714

zbMATH Keywords

obstacle problemsingular setHele-Shaw flowfree boundary regularitySchaeffer's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Unilateral problems for linear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with linear elliptic operators (35J86) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to establish generic regularity of free boundaries for the obstacle problem in $mathbb{R}^n$. By classical results of Caffarelli, the free boundary is $C^{i}nfty$ outside a set of singular points. Explicit examples show that the singular set could be in general $(n-1)$-dimensional ---that is, as large as the regular set. Our main result establishes that, generically, the singular set has zero $mathcal{H}^{n-4}$ measure (in particular, it has codimension 3 inside the free boundary). In particular, for $nleq4$, the free boundary is generically a $C^{i}nfty$ manifold. This solves a conjecture of Schaeffer (dating back to 1974) on the generic regularity of free boundaries in dimensions $nleq4$.

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