Regularity and geometric estimates for minima of discontinuous functionals

DOI10.4171/RMI/827zbMATH Open1323.35219arXiv1111.2625OpenAlexW2594276400MaRDI QIDQ2340461FDOQ2340461

Authors: Raimundo Leitão, Eduardo V. Teixeira 

Publication date: 17 April 2015

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study nonnegative minimizers of general degenerate elliptic functionals, $intF(X,u,Du)dXomin$, for variational kernels $F$ that are discontinuous in $u$ with discontinuity of order $simch{i}_{u>0}$. The Euler-Lagrange equation is therefore governed by a non-homogeneous, degenerate elliptic equation with free boundary between the positive and the zero phases of the minimizer. We show optimal gradient estimate and nondegeneracy of minima. We also address weak and strong regularity properties of free boundary. We show the set $u>0$ has locally finite perimeter and that the reduced free boundary, $partia{l}_{e}xtredu>0$, has $mathcal{H}^{n-1}$-total measure. For more specific problems that arise in jet flows, we show the reduced free boundary is locally the graph of a $C^{1,gamma}$ function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2625

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problemsdegenerate elliptic equationsdiscontinuous functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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