On the regularity of the free boundary in the p-Laplacian obstacle problem

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2017.03.035zbMATH Open1387.35631arXiv1701.05262OpenAlexW2580644902WikidataQ112631922 ScholiaQ112631922MaRDI QIDQ526047FDOQ526047

Authors: Alessio Figalli, Brian Krummel, Xavier Ros-Oton 

Publication date: 8 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $$ in $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n$. Here, $$, and $pin(1,2)cup(2,infty)$. Near those free boundary points where $ablavarphieq0$, the operator $Delt{a}_p$ is uniformly elliptic and smooth, and hence the free boundary is well understood. However, when $ablavarphi=0$ then $Delt{a}_p$ is singular or degenerate, and nothing was known about the regularity of the free boundary at those points. Here we study the regularity of the free boundary where $ablavarphi=0$. On the one hand, for every $peq2$ we construct explicit global $2$-homogeneous solutions to the $p$-Laplacian obstacle problem whose free boundaries have a corner at the origin. In particular, we show that the free boundary is in general not $C^1$ at points where $ablavarphi=0$. On the other hand, under the "concavity" assumption $|ablavarphi{|}^{2-p}Delt{a}_{p}varphi<0$, we show the free boundary is countably $(n-1)$-rectifiable and we prove a nondegeneracy property for $u$ at all free boundary points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05262

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zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-Laplacianfree boundaryobstacle problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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