scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1985427

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The aim of this paper is to present some approaches to the investigation of regularity properties of solutions and interfaces of some free boundary problems. One of the most famous one of these is the Stefan problem. Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(C_T=\Omega\times (0,T)\). The problem is to find a function \(u(x,t)\) such that in the distributional sense \[ \Delta u \in \beta (u)_t, \quad\text{ in } C_T, \] under corresponding initial-boundary conditions. Here \[ \beta (u)= a_1 u^+a_2 u^-+\frac 12 \text{ sign } u, \] where \(a_1\), \(a_2\) are some positive constants, \(u^+=\)max\(\{ u,0 \}\), \(u^-=\)max\(\{ -u,0\}\). Let \(u(x,t)\) be continuous, \(F(u)=\partial \{ u>0 \} \cap C_T\). The paper is concerned with the following questions: (a) Suppose that the free boundary is (locally) a Lipschitz graph. Can we deduce further regularity for \(u\) and \(F(u)\)? (b) Suppose \(F(u)\) is not necessarily a graph (locally) but is ``flat in a suitable Lebesgue differentiability sense. Is \(F(u)\) a smooth graph?











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