Optimal regularity for the Signorini problem

DOI10.1007/S00526-009-0242-5MaRDI QIDQ1047934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nestor Guillen

Publication date 8 January 2010

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0421

zbMATH Keywords

free boundaryobstacle problemSignorini problemmonotonicity formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Regularity of solutions of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G40)

Abstract: We prove under general assumptions that solutions of the thin obstacle or Signorini problem in any space dimension achieve the optimal regularity $C^{1,1/2}$. This improves the known optimal regularity results by allowing the thin obstacle to be defined in an arbitrary $$ hypersurface, $$, additionally, our proof covers any linear elliptic operator in divergence form with smooth coefficients. The main ingredients of the proof are a version of Almgren's monotonicity formula and the optimal regularity of global solutions.

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