A spiral interface with positive Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman limit at the origin

DOI10.2140/APDE.2020.13.201MaRDI QIDQ2299294zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dennis Kriventsov, Mark G. Allen

Publication date 21 February 2020

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01940

zbMATH Keywords

free boundarymonotonicity formulaACF monotonicity formulaspiral interface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: We give an example of a pair of nonnegative subharmonic functions with disjoint support for which the Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman monotonicity formula has strictly positive limit at the origin, and yet the interface between their supports lacks a (unique) tangent there. This clarifies a remark appearing in the literature (see cite{cs05}) that the positivity of the limit of the ACF formula implies unique tangents; this is true under some additional assumptions, but false in general. In our example, blow-ups converge to the expected piecewise linear two-plane function along subsequences, but the limiting function depends on the subsequence due to the spiraling nature of the interface.

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