The regular free boundary in the thin obstacle problem for degenerate parabolic equations

DOI10.1090/SPMJ/1656zbMATH Open1469.35072arXiv1906.06885OpenAlexW3161070797MaRDI QIDQ4989683FDOQ4989683

Authors: Agnid Banerjee, D. Danielli, Nicola Garofalo, Arshak Petrosyan 

Publication date: 26 May 2021

Published in: St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the existence, the optimal regularity of solutions, and the regularity of the free boundary near the so-called emph{regular points} in a thin obstacle problem that arises as the local extension of the obstacle problem for the fractional heat operator $(partia{l}_t-Delt{a}_x{)}^s$ for $sin(0,1)$. Our regularity estimates are completely local in nature. This aspect is of crucial importance in our forthcoming work on the blowup analysis of the free boundary, including the study of the singular set. Our approach is based on first establishing the boundedness of the time-derivative of the solution. This allows reduction to an elliptic problem at every fixed time level. Using several results from the elliptic theory, including the epiperimetric inequality, we establish the optimal regularity of solutions as well as $H^{1+gamma,frac1+gamma2}$ regularity of the free boundary near such regular points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06885

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zbMATH Keywords

fractional heat equationepiperimetric inequalityWeiss-type monotonicity formulaproblems with unilateral constraintsSignorini complementary conditionstruncated Almgren type frequency formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Unilateral problems for linear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with linear parabolic operators (35K85)

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