Stratification of free boundary points for a two-phase variational problem

Abstract: In this paper we study the two-phase Bernoulli type free boundary problem arising from the minimization of the functional

J(u):=int_{Omega}| abla u|^p +lambda_+^p,chi_{{u>0}} +lambda_-^p,chi_{{ule 0}}, quad 1<p<infty.

Here

O m e g a s u b s e t R^{N}

is a bounded smooth domain and

l a m b d a_{p} m

are positive constants such that

l a m b d a_{+}^{p} - l a m b d a_{-}^{p} > 0

. We prove the following dichotomy: if

x_{0}

is a free boundary point then either the free boundary is smooth near

x_{0}

or

u

has linear growth at

x_{0}

. Furthermore, we show that for

p > 1

the free boundary has locally finite perimeter and the set of non-smooth points of free boundary is of zero

(N - 1)

-dimensional Hausdorff measure. Our approach is new even for the classical case

p = 2

.

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