Regularity of the free boundary for the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian with drift

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2016.03.001MaRDI QIDQ523069zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicola Garofalo, Arshak Petrosyan, Camelia A. Pop, Mariana Vega Smit

Publication date 20 April 2017

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06228

zbMATH Keywords

monotonicity formulasobstacle problemsymmetric stable processepiperimetric inequalityfree boundary regularityfractional Laplacian with drift

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional processes, including fractional Brownian motion (60G22) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: We establish the $C^{1+gamma}$-H"older regularity of the regular free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplace operator with drift in the subcritical regime. Our method of the proof consists in proving a new monotonicity formula and an epiperimetric inequality. Both tools generalizes the original ideas of G. Weiss for the classical obstacle problem to the framework of fractional powers of the Laplace operator with drift. Our study continues the earlier research, where two of us established the optimal interior regularity of solutions.

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