Full and partial regularity for a class of nonlinear free boundary problems

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.anihpc.2020.09.008

Aram Karakhanyan

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Abstract

In this paper we classify the nonnegative global minimizers of the functional $J_{F} (u) = \int_{Ω} F (| \nabla u |^{2}) + λ^{2} χ_{{u > 0}},$ where F satisfies some structural conditions and $χ_{D}$ is the characteristic function of a set $D \subset R^{n}$ . We compute the second variation of the energy and study the properties of the stability operator. The free boundary $\partial {u > 0}$ can be seen as a rectifiable $n - 1$ varifold. If the free boundary is a Lipschitz multigraph then we show that the first variation of this varifold is bounded. Hence one can use Allard's monotonicity formula to prove the existence of tangent cones modulo a set of small Hausdorff dimension. In particular, we prove that if $n = 3$ and the ellipticity constants of the quasilinear elliptic operator generated by F are close to 1 then the conical free boundary must be flat.

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一类非线性自由边界问题的全正则性和部分正则性

本文对泛函jf (u)=∫ΩF(|∇u|2)+λ2χ{u>0}的非负全局极小值进行了分类，其中F满足某些结构条件，χD是集合D∧Rn的特征函数。我们计算了能量的二阶变分，并研究了稳定算子的性质。自由边界∂{u>0}可以看作是一个可校正的n - 1变量。如果自由边界是一个Lipschitz多重图，那么我们证明了这个变分的第一个变分是有界的。因此可以用Allard的单调性公式来证明切锥模于一组小Hausdorff维数的存在性。特别地，我们证明了如果n=3且由F生成的拟线性椭圆算子的椭圆常数接近于1，则圆锥自由边界一定是平坦的。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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