REGULARITY OF INTERFACES IN PHASE TRANSITIONS VIA OBSTACLE PROBLEMS - FIELDS MEDAL LECTURE

DOI10.1142/9789813272880_0011MaRDI QIDQ5121983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessio Figallli

Publication date 22 September 2020

Published in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02932

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic and parabolic obstacle problemsfree boundaryone-phase Stefan problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Variational inequalities (49J40)

Abstract: The aim of this note is to review some recent developments on the regularity theory for the stationary and parabolic obstacle problems. After a general overview, we present some recent results on the structure of singular free boundary points. Then, we show some selected applications to the generic smoothness of the free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem (Schaeffer's conjecture), and to the smoothness of the free boundary in the one-phase Stefan problem for almost every time.

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