Epsilon-regularity for the solutions of a free boundary system

DOI10.4171/RMI/1430arXiv2108.03606OpenAlexW3187542098MaRDI QIDQ6058050FDOQ6058050

Authors: Francesco Paolo Maiale, Giorgio Tortone, Bozhidar Velichkov 

Publication date: 26 October 2023

Published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is dedicated to a free boundary system arising in the study of a class of shape optimization problems. The problem involves three variables: two functions $u$ and $v$, and a domain $Omega$; with $u$ and $v$ being both positive in $Omega$, vanishing simultaneously on $partialOmega$ and satisfying an overdetermined boundary value problem involving the product of their normal derivatives on $partialOmega$. Precisely, we consider solutions $u,vinC(B_1)$ of ${\displaystyle }$-Delta u= f quad ext{and} quad-Delta v=gquad ext{in}quad Omega={u>0}={v>0} ,qquad frac{partial u}{partial n}frac{partial v}{partial n}=Qquad ext{on}quad partialOmegacap B_1.${\displaystyle }$ Our main result is an epsilon-regularity theorem for viscosity solutions of this free boundary system. We prove a partial Harnack inequality near flat points for the couple of auxiliary functions $sqrtuv$ and $frac12(u+v)$. Then, we use the gained space near the free boundary to transfer the improved flatness to the original solutions. Finally, using the partial Harnack inequality, we obtain an improvement-of-flatness result, which allows to conclude that flatness implies $C^{1,alpha}$ regularity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03606

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zbMATH Keywords

viscosity solutionsregularity of free boundariesfree boundary systemepsilon-regularityimprovement of flatnessboundary Harnack

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Unilateral problems for elliptic systems and systems of variational inequalities with elliptic operators (35J88)

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