Minimization of a fractional perimeter-Dirichlet integral functional (Q494144)

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.