On the regularity of the free boundary for quasilinear obstacle problems

DOI10.4171/IFB/323MaRDI QIDQ467368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abdeslem Lyaghfouri, José Francisco Rodrigues, Rafayel Teymurazyan, S. Challal

Publication date 3 November 2014

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6641

zbMATH Keywords

regularityfree boundaryobstacle problemheterogeneous \(p\)-Laplacianquasi-linear elliptic operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62) Degenerate elliptic equations (35J70) Singular elliptic equations (35J75) Unilateral problems for nonlinear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear elliptic operators (35J87) Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian (35J92) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: We extend basic regularity of the free boundary of the obstacle problem to some classes of heterogeneous quasilinear elliptic operators with variable growth that includes, in particular, the $p(x)$-Laplacian. Under the assumption of Lipschitz continuity of the order of the power growth $p(x)>1$, we use the growth rate of the solution near the free boundary to obtain its porosity, which implies that the free boundary is of Lebesgue measure zero for $p(x)$-Laplacian type heterogeneous obstacle problems. Under additional assumptions on the operator heterogeneities and on data we show, in two different cases, that up to a negligible singular set of null perimeter the free boundary is the union of at most a countable family of $C^1$ hypersurfaces: i) by extending directly the finiteness of the $(n-1)$-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the free boundary to the case of heterogeneous $p$-Laplacian type operators with constant $p$; $1<p<infty$; ii) by proving the characteristic function of the coincidence set is of bounded variation in the case of non degenerate or non singular operators with variable power growth $p(x)>1$.

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