Uniqueness of the blowup at isolated singularities for the Alt-Caffarelli functional

DOI10.1215/00127094-2019-0077zbMATH Open1448.35583arXiv1801.09276OpenAlexW3020510103MaRDI QIDQ784203FDOQ784203

Authors: Max Engelstein, Luca Spolaor, Bozhidar Velichkov 

Publication date: 3 August 2020

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we prove uniqueness of blow-ups and $C^{1,log}$-regularity for the free-boundary of minimizers of the Alt-Caffarelli functional at points where one blow-up has an isolated singularity. We do this by establishing a (log-)epiperimetric inequality for the Weiss energy for traces close to that of a cone with isolated singularity, whose free-boundary is graphical and smooth over that of the cone in the sphere. With additional assumptions on the cone, we can prove a classical epiperimetric inequality which can be applied to deduce a $C^{1,alpha}$ regularity result. We also show that these additional assumptions are satisfied by the De Silva-Jerison-type cones, which are the only known examples of minimizing cones with isolated singularity. Our approach draws a connection between epiperimetric inequalities and the L ojasiewicz inequality, and, to our knowledge, provides the first regularity result at singular points in the one-phase Bernoulli problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09276

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundaryepiperimetric inequalitysingular pointsmonotonicity formulaBernoulli problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

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