Recent progresses on elliptic two-phase free boundary problems

Daniela De Silva; Fausto Ferrari; Sandro Salsa

doi:10.3934/dcds.2019239

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2019, Volume 39, Issue 12: 6961-6978. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019239

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Recent progresses on elliptic two-phase free boundary problems

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Department of Mathematics, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato, 5, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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Dipartimento di Matematica del Politecnico di Milano, Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy

^* Corresponding author: Sandro Salsa
^* Corresponding author: Sandro Salsa

Received: October 2018

Revised: November 2018

Published: September 2019

D. D. is partially supported by the Tow Award. F. F. is partially supported by: INDAM-GNAMPA 2017-Regolarità delle soluzioni viscose per equazioni a derivate parziali non lineari degeneri, INDAM-GNAMPA 2018-Costanti critiche e problemi asintotici per equazioni completamente non lineari.

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We provide an overview of some recent results about the regularity of the solution and the free boundary for so-called two-phase free boundary problems driven by uniformly elliptic equations.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R35, 35B65, 35J66.

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