A remark on Hausdorff measure in obstacle problems (Q692842)

Summary: In this paper, we consider the identical zero obstacle problem for the second order elliptic equation \[ -\text{ div}\;a(\nabla u)=-1\quad \text{in}\;\mathcal {D}'(\Omega), \] where \(\Omega\) is an open bounded domain of \(\mathbb{R}^{N},N\geq 2\). We prove that the free boundary has finite \((N-1)\)-Hausdorff measure, which extends the previous works by \textit{L. A. Caffarelli} [J. Fourier Anal. Appl. 4, No. 4--5, 383--402 (1998; Zbl 0928.49030)] and \textit{K. Lee} and \textit{H. Shahgholian} [J. Differ. Equations 195, No. 1, 14--24 (2003; Zbl 1133.35443)] for \(p\)-Laplacian equations with \(p=2\), \(p>2\) respectively and contains the singular case of \(1< p <2\).