A Geometric Approach to Free Boundary Problems

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "A Geometric Approach to Free Boundary Problems"

Transcription

1 A Geometric Approach to Free Boundary Problems Luis Caffarelli Sandro Salsa Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 68 a,,,,. n American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island

2 Introduction vii Part 1. Elliptic Problems Chapter 1. An Introductory Problem Introduction and heuristic considerations A one-phase singular perturbation problem The free boundary condition 17 Chapter 2. Viscosity Solutions and Their Asymptotic Developments The notion of viscosity solution Asymptotic developments Comparison principles 30 Chapter 3. The Regularity of the Free Boundary Weak results Weak results for one-phase problems Strong results 40 Chapter 4. Lipschitz Free Boundaries Are C 1 ' The main theorem. Heuristic considerations and strategy Interior improvement of the Lipschitz constant A Harnack principle. Improved interior gain A continuous family of i?-subsolutions Free boundary improvement. Basic iteration 62 iii

3 iv a, Chapter 5. Flat Free Boundaries Are Lipschitz Heuristic considerations An auxiliary family of functions Level surfaces of normal perturbations of e-monotone functions A continuous family of i?-subsolutions Proof of Theorem A degenerate case 80 Chapter 6. Existence Theory Introduction u + is locally Lipschitz u is Lipschitz u + is nondegenerate wis a viscosity supersolution u is a viscosity subsolution Measure-theoretic properties of F(u) Asymptotic developments Regularity and compactness 106 Part 2. Evolution Problems Chapter 7. Parabolic Free Boundary Problems Introduction A class of free boundary problems and their viscosity solutions Asymptotic behavior and free boundary relation i?-subsolutions and a comparison principle 118 Chapter 8. Lipschitz Free Boundaries: Weak Results Lipschitz continuity of viscosity solutions Asymptotic behavior and free boundary relation Counterexamples 125 Chapter 9. Lipschitz Free Boundaries: Strong Results Nondegenerate problems: main result and strategy Interior gain in space (parabolic homogeneity) Common gain Interior gain in space (hyperbolic homogeneity) 141

4 9.5. Interior gain in time A continuous family of subcaloric functions Free boundary improvement. Propagation lemma Regularization of the free boundary in space Free boundary regularity in space and time 160 Chapter 10. Flat Free Boundaries Are Smooth Main result and strategy Interior enlargement of the monotonicity cone Control of u v at a "contact point" A continuous family of perturbations Improvement of e-monotonicity Propagation of cone enlargement to the free boundary Proof of the main theorem Finite time regularization 185 Part 3. Complementary Chapters: Main Tools Chapter 11. Boundary Behavior of Harmonic Functions Harmonic functions in Lipschitz domains Boundary Harnack principles An excursion on harmonic measure Monotonicity properties e-monotonicity and full monotonicity Linear behavior at regular boundary points 207 Chapter 12. Monotonicity Formulas and Applications A 2-dimensional formula The n-dimensional formula Consequences and applications A parabolic monotonicity formula A singular perturbation parabolic problem 233 Chapter 13. Boundary Behavior of Caloric Functions Caloric functions in Lip(l, 1/2) domains Caloric functions in Lipschitz domains Asymptotic behavior near the zero set e-monotonicity and full monotonicity 256

5 vi An excursion on caloric measure 262 Bibliography 265 Index 269

Obstacle Problems Involving The Fractional Laplacian

Obstacle Problems Involving The Fractional Laplacian Obstacle Problems Involving The Fractional Laplacian Donatella Danielli and Sandro Salsa January 27, 2017 1 Introduction Obstacle problems involving a fractional power of the Laplace operator appear in

More information

Elliptic & Parabolic Equations

Elliptic & Parabolic Equations Elliptic & Parabolic Equations Zhuoqun Wu, Jingxue Yin & Chunpeng Wang Jilin University, China World Scientific NEW JERSEY LONDON SINGAPORE BEIJING SHANGHAI HONG KONG TAIPEI CHENNAI Contents Preface v

More information

Homogenization of a Hele-Shaw-type problem in periodic time-dependent med

Homogenization of a Hele-Shaw-type problem in periodic time-dependent med Homogenization of a Hele-Shaw-type problem in periodic time-dependent media University of Tokyo npozar@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp KIAS, Seoul, November 30, 2012 Hele-Shaw problem Model of the pressure-driven }{{}

More information

Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type, and von Neumann s Conjectures 1

Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type, and von Neumann s Conjectures 1 Contents Preface xi I Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Nonlinear Conservation Laws of Mixed Type, and von Neumann s Conjectures 1 1 Shock Reflection-Diffraction, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations of

More information

Partial regularity for fully nonlinear PDE

Partial regularity for fully nonlinear PDE Partial regularity for fully nonlinear PDE Luis Silvestre University of Chicago Joint work with Scott Armstrong and Charles Smart Outline Introduction Intro Review of fully nonlinear elliptic PDE Our result

More information

Homogenization and error estimates of free boundary velocities in periodic media

Homogenization and error estimates of free boundary velocities in periodic media Homogenization and error estimates of free boundary velocities in periodic media Inwon C. Kim October 7, 2011 Abstract In this note I describe a recent result ([14]-[15]) on homogenization and error estimates

More information

Frequency functions, monotonicity formulas, and the thin obstacle problem

Frequency functions, monotonicity formulas, and the thin obstacle problem Frequency functions, monotonicity formulas, and the thin obstacle problem IMA - University of Minnesota March 4, 2013 Thank you for the invitation! In this talk we will present an overview of the parabolic

More information

MINIMAL SURFACES AND MINIMIZERS OF THE GINZBURG-LANDAU ENERGY

MINIMAL SURFACES AND MINIMIZERS OF THE GINZBURG-LANDAU ENERGY MINIMAL SURFACES AND MINIMIZERS OF THE GINZBURG-LANDAU ENERGY O. SAVIN 1. Introduction In this expository article we describe various properties in parallel for minimal surfaces and minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau

More information

The Method of Intrinsic Scaling

The Method of Intrinsic Scaling The Method of Intrinsic Scaling José Miguel Urbano CMUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal jmurb@mat.uc.pt Spring School in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs Helsinki, June 2 6, 2008 The parabolic p-laplace equation

More information

Regularity estimates for the solution and the free boundary of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian

Regularity estimates for the solution and the free boundary of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian Regularity estimates for the solution and the free boundary of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian Luis Caffarelli, Sandro Salsa and Luis Silvestre October 15, 2007 Abstract We use a characterization

More information

Lecture No 2 Degenerate Diffusion Free boundary problems

Lecture No 2 Degenerate Diffusion Free boundary problems Lecture No 2 Degenerate Diffusion Free boundary problems Columbia University IAS summer program June, 2009 Outline We will discuss non-linear parabolic equations of slow diffusion. Our model is the porous

More information

THE NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

THE NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS THE NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants May be used for personal purporses only or by libraries associated to dandelon.com network. BY DR. LOTHAR COLLATZ

More information

Regularity estimates for fully non linear elliptic equations which are asymptotically convex

Regularity estimates for fully non linear elliptic equations which are asymptotically convex Regularity estimates for fully non linear elliptic equations which are asymptotically convex Luis Silvestre and Eduardo V. Teixeira Abstract In this paper we deliver improved C 1,α regularity estimates

More information

VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS LUIS SILVESTRE These are the notes from the summer course given in the Second Chicago Summer School In Analysis, in June 2015. We introduce the notion of viscosity

More information

R. Courant and D. Hilbert METHODS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Volume II Partial Differential Equations by R. Courant

R. Courant and D. Hilbert METHODS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Volume II Partial Differential Equations by R. Courant R. Courant and D. Hilbert METHODS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Volume II Partial Differential Equations by R. Courant CONTENTS I. Introductory Remarks S1. General Information about the Variety of Solutions.

More information

Regularity of flat level sets in phase transitions

Regularity of flat level sets in phase transitions Annals of Mathematics, 69 (2009), 4 78 Regularity of flat level sets in phase transitions By Ovidiu Savin Abstract We consider local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional 2 u 2 + 4 ( u2 )

More information

PHASE TRANSITIONS: REGULARITY OF FLAT LEVEL SETS

PHASE TRANSITIONS: REGULARITY OF FLAT LEVEL SETS PHASE TRANSITIONS: REGULARITY OF FLAT LEVEL SETS OVIDIU SAVIN Abstract. We consider local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional 2 u 2 + 4 ( u2 ) 2 dx and prove that, if the level set is included

More information

Applied Asymptotic Analysis

Applied Asymptotic Analysis Applied Asymptotic Analysis Peter D. Miller Graduate Studies in Mathematics Volume 75 American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island Preface xiii Part 1. Fundamentals Chapter 0. Themes of Asymptotic

More information

OPTIMAL REGULARITY FOR A TWO-PHASE FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM RULED BY THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN DAMIÃO J. ARAÚJO, EDUARDO V. TEIXEIRA AND JOSÉ MIGUEL URBANO

OPTIMAL REGULARITY FOR A TWO-PHASE FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM RULED BY THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN DAMIÃO J. ARAÚJO, EDUARDO V. TEIXEIRA AND JOSÉ MIGUEL URBANO Pré-Publicações do Departamento de Matemática Universidade de Coimbra Preprint Number 18 55 OPTIMAL REGULARITY FOR A TWO-PHASE FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM RULED BY THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN DAMIÃO J. ARAÚJO, EDUARDO

More information

The Monge-Ampère Equation. Connor Mooney

The Monge-Ampère Equation. Connor Mooney The Monge-Ampère Equation Connor Mooney 1 Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Basics 4 3 Solving the Dirichlet Problem 7 3.1 Boundary Harnack Inequality.......................... 8 4 Pogorelov s Estimate 10 5

More information

Asymptotic Behavior of Infinity Harmonic Functions Near an Isolated Singularity

Asymptotic Behavior of Infinity Harmonic Functions Near an Isolated Singularity Savin, O., and C. Wang. (2008) Asymptotic Behavior of Infinity Harmonic Functions, International Mathematics Research Notices, Vol. 2008, Article ID rnm163, 23 pages. doi:10.1093/imrn/rnm163 Asymptotic

More information

Asymptotic behavior of infinity harmonic functions near an isolated singularity

Asymptotic behavior of infinity harmonic functions near an isolated singularity Asymptotic behavior of infinity harmonic functions near an isolated singularity Ovidiu Savin, Changyou Wang, Yifeng Yu Abstract In this paper, we prove if n 2 x 0 is an isolated singularity of a nonegative

More information

Fast convergent finite difference solvers for the elliptic Monge-Ampère equation

Fast convergent finite difference solvers for the elliptic Monge-Ampère equation Fast convergent finite difference solvers for the elliptic Monge-Ampère equation Adam Oberman Simon Fraser University BIRS February 17, 211 Joint work [O.] 28. Convergent scheme in two dim. Explicit solver.

More information

Behavior of space periodic laminar flames near the extinction point

Behavior of space periodic laminar flames near the extinction point Behavior of space periodic laminar flames near the extinction point Sunhi Choi Abstract In this paper we study a free boundary problem, arising from a model for the propagation of laminar flames. Consider

More information

Appeared in Commun. Contemp. Math. 11 (1) (2009) ZERO ORDER PERTURBATIONS TO FULLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS: COMPARISON, EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS

Appeared in Commun. Contemp. Math. 11 (1) (2009) ZERO ORDER PERTURBATIONS TO FULLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS: COMPARISON, EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS Appeared in Commun. Contemp. Math. 11 1 2009 1 34. ZERO ORDER PERTURBATIONS TO FULLY NONLINEAR EQUATIONS: COMPARISON, EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS FERNANDO CHARRO AND IRENEO PERAL Abstract. We study existence

More information

Regularity for functionals involving perimeter

Regularity for functionals involving perimeter Regularity for functionals involving perimeter Guido De Philippis, Jimmy Lamboley, Michel Pierre, Bozhidar Velichkov Université Paris Dauphine, CEREMADE 22/11/16, CIRM Shape optimization, Isoperimetric

More information

Optimal Control and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations

Optimal Control and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations Martino Bardi Italo Capuzzo-Dolcetta Optimal Control and Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations Birkhauser Boston Basel Berlin Contents Preface Basic notations xi xv Chapter I. Outline

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 12 Oct 2018

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 12 Oct 2018 LIMIT SHAPES OF LOCAL MINIMIZERS FOR THE ALT-CAFFARELLI ENERGY FUNCTIONAL IN INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA arxiv:1810.05738v1 [math.ap] 12 Oct 2018 WILLIAM M FELDMAN Abstract. This paper considers the Alt-Caffarelli

More information

NON-EXTINCTION OF SOLUTIONS TO A FAST DIFFUSION SYSTEM WITH NONLOCAL SOURCES

NON-EXTINCTION OF SOLUTIONS TO A FAST DIFFUSION SYSTEM WITH NONLOCAL SOURCES Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2016 (2016, No. 45, pp. 1 5. ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu ftp ejde.math.txstate.edu NON-EXTINCTION OF

More information

Regularity for the One-Phase Hele-Shaw problem from a Lipschitz initial surface

Regularity for the One-Phase Hele-Shaw problem from a Lipschitz initial surface Regularity for the One-Phase Hele-Shaw problem from a Lipschitz initial surface Sunhi Choi, David Jerison and Inwon Kim June 2, 2005 Abstract In this paper we show that if the Lipschitz constant of the

More information

Universität des Saarlandes. Fachrichtung 6.1 Mathematik

Universität des Saarlandes. Fachrichtung 6.1 Mathematik Universität des Saarlandes U N I V E R S I T A S S A R A V I E N I S S Fachrichtung 6.1 Mathematik Preprint Nr. 307 Uniform estimates near the initial state for solutions to the two-phase parabolic problem

More information

Eugenia Malinnikova NTNU. March E. Malinnikova Propagation of smallness for elliptic PDEs

Eugenia Malinnikova NTNU. March E. Malinnikova Propagation of smallness for elliptic PDEs Remez inequality and propagation of smallness for solutions of second order elliptic PDEs Part II. Logarithmic convexity for harmonic functions and solutions of elliptic PDEs Eugenia Malinnikova NTNU March

More information

OLIVIA MILOJ March 27, 2006 ON THE PENROSE INEQUALITY

OLIVIA MILOJ March 27, 2006 ON THE PENROSE INEQUALITY OLIVIA MILOJ March 27, 2006 ON THE PENROSE INEQUALITY Abstract Penrose presented back in 1973 an argument that any part of the spacetime which contains black holes with event horizons of area A has total

More information

ON THE REGULARITY OF SAMPLE PATHS OF SUB-ELLIPTIC DIFFUSIONS ON MANIFOLDS

ON THE REGULARITY OF SAMPLE PATHS OF SUB-ELLIPTIC DIFFUSIONS ON MANIFOLDS Bendikov, A. and Saloff-Coste, L. Osaka J. Math. 4 (5), 677 7 ON THE REGULARITY OF SAMPLE PATHS OF SUB-ELLIPTIC DIFFUSIONS ON MANIFOLDS ALEXANDER BENDIKOV and LAURENT SALOFF-COSTE (Received March 4, 4)

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 18 Jan 2019

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 18 Jan 2019 manuscripta mathematica manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Yongpan Huang Dongsheng Li Kai Zhang Pointwise Boundary Differentiability of Solutions of Elliptic Equations Received: date / Revised

More information

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES FOR THE RELATIVISTIC HEAT EQUATION

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES FOR THE RELATIVISTIC HEAT EQUATION MAXIMUM PRINCIPLES FOR THE RELATIVISTIC HEAT EQUATION EVAN MILLER AND ARI STERN arxiv:1507.05030v1 [math.ap] 17 Jul 2015 Abstract. The classical heat equation is incompatible with relativity, since the

More information

Thuong Nguyen. SADCO Internal Review Metting

Thuong Nguyen. SADCO Internal Review Metting Asymptotic behavior of singularly perturbed control system: non-periodic setting Thuong Nguyen (Joint work with A. Siconolfi) SADCO Internal Review Metting Rome, Nov 10-12, 2014 Thuong Nguyen (Roma Sapienza)

More information

Convexity of level sets for solutions to nonlinear elliptic problems in convex rings. Paola Cuoghi and Paolo Salani

Convexity of level sets for solutions to nonlinear elliptic problems in convex rings. Paola Cuoghi and Paolo Salani Convexity of level sets for solutions to nonlinear elliptic problems in convex rings Paola Cuoghi and Paolo Salani Dip.to di Matematica U. Dini - Firenze - Italy 1 Let u be a solution of a Dirichlet problem

More information

Published online: 29 Aug 2007.

Published online: 29 Aug 2007. This article was downloaded by: [Technische Universitat Chemnitz] On: 30 August 2014, At: 01:22 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered

More information

Degenerate Monge-Ampère equations and the smoothness of the eigenfunction

Degenerate Monge-Ampère equations and the smoothness of the eigenfunction Degenerate Monge-Ampère equations and the smoothness of the eigenfunction Ovidiu Savin Columbia University November 2nd, 2015 Ovidiu Savin (Columbia University) Degenerate Monge-Ampère equations November

More information

REGULARITY FOR INFINITY HARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS

REGULARITY FOR INFINITY HARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS C,α REGULARITY FOR INFINITY HARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS LAWRENCE C. EVANS AND OVIDIU SAVIN Abstract. We propose a new method for showing C,α regularity for solutions of the infinity Laplacian

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 18 Jan 2019

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 18 Jan 2019 Boundary Pointwise C 1,α C 2,α Regularity for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations arxiv:1901.06060v1 [math.ap] 18 Jan 2019 Yuanyuan Lian a, Kai Zhang a, a Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern

More information

A GENERAL CLASS OF FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS FOR FULLY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

A GENERAL CLASS OF FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS FOR FULLY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS A GENERAL CLASS OF FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEMS FOR FULLY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS ALESSIO FIGALLI AND HENRIK SHAHGHOLIAN Abstract. In this paper we study the fully nonlinear free boundary problem { F (D

More information

TOPICS IN NONLINEAR ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università di Milano Bicocca March 15-16, 2017

TOPICS IN NONLINEAR ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università di Milano Bicocca March 15-16, 2017 TOPICS IN NONLINEAR ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università di Milano Bicocca March 15-16, 2017 Abstracts of the talks Spectral stability under removal of small capacity

More information

Foliations of hyperbolic space by constant mean curvature surfaces sharing ideal boundary

Foliations of hyperbolic space by constant mean curvature surfaces sharing ideal boundary Foliations of hyperbolic space by constant mean curvature surfaces sharing ideal boundary David Chopp and John A. Velling December 1, 2003 Abstract Let γ be a Jordan curve in S 2, considered as the ideal

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 12 Dec 2018

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 12 Dec 2018 arxiv:1812.04782v1 [math.ap] 12 Dec 2018 OPTIMAL REGULARITY FOR A TWO-PHASE FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM RULED BY THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN DAMIÃO J. ARAÚJO, EDUARDO TEIXEIRA, AND JOSÉ MIGUEL URBANO Abstract. In

More information

COMPARISON PRINCIPLES FOR CONSTRAINED SUBHARMONICS PH.D. COURSE - SPRING 2019 UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO

COMPARISON PRINCIPLES FOR CONSTRAINED SUBHARMONICS PH.D. COURSE - SPRING 2019 UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO COMPARISON PRINCIPLES FOR CONSTRAINED SUBHARMONICS PH.D. COURSE - SPRING 2019 UNIVERSITÀ DI MILANO KEVIN R. PAYNE 1. Introduction Constant coefficient differential inequalities and inclusions, constraint

More information

INTEGRABILITY OF SUPERHARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN A JOHN DOMAIN. Hiroaki Aikawa

INTEGRABILITY OF SUPERHARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN A JOHN DOMAIN. Hiroaki Aikawa INTEGRABILITY OF SUPERHARMONIC FUNCTIONS IN A OHN OMAIN Hiroaki Aikawa Abstract. The integrability of positive erharmonic functions on a bounded fat ohn domain is established. No exterior conditions are

More information

PARTIAL REGULARITY OF BRENIER SOLUTIONS OF THE MONGE-AMPÈRE EQUATION

PARTIAL REGULARITY OF BRENIER SOLUTIONS OF THE MONGE-AMPÈRE EQUATION PARTIAL REGULARITY OF BRENIER SOLUTIONS OF THE MONGE-AMPÈRE EQUATION ALESSIO FIGALLI AND YOUNG-HEON KIM Abstract. Given Ω, Λ R n two bounded open sets, and f and g two probability densities concentrated

More information

Robustness for a Liouville type theorem in exterior domains

Robustness for a Liouville type theorem in exterior domains Robustness for a Liouville type theorem in exterior domains Juliette Bouhours 1 arxiv:1207.0329v3 [math.ap] 24 Oct 2014 1 UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, F-75005, Paris,

More information

Regularity of the optimal set for spectral problems and the vectorial Bernoulli problem

Regularity of the optimal set for spectral problems and the vectorial Bernoulli problem Regularity of the optimal set for spectral problems and the vectorial Bernoulli problem Dipartimento di Matematica Giuseppe Peano Università di Torino ERC Advanced Grant n. 339958 - COMPAT joint works

More information

Motivation Power curvature flow Large exponent limit Analogues & applications. Qing Liu. Fukuoka University. Joint work with Prof.

Motivation Power curvature flow Large exponent limit Analogues & applications. Qing Liu. Fukuoka University. Joint work with Prof. On Large Exponent Behavior of Power Curvature Flow Arising in Image Processing Qing Liu Fukuoka University Joint work with Prof. Naoki Yamada Mathematics and Phenomena in Miyazaki 2017 University of Miyazaki

More information

Generalized Functions Theory and Technique Second Edition

Generalized Functions Theory and Technique Second Edition Ram P. Kanwal Generalized Functions Theory and Technique Second Edition Birkhauser Boston Basel Berlin Contents Preface to the Second Edition x Chapter 1. The Dirac Delta Function and Delta Sequences 1

More information

Optimality Conditions for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization

Optimality Conditions for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Optimality Conditions for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Sangkyun Lee Oct 22, 2014 Let us consider a convex function f : R n R, where R is the extended real field, R := R {, + }, which is proper (f never

More information

Myths, Facts and Dreams in General Relativity

Myths, Facts and Dreams in General Relativity Princeton university November, 2010 MYTHS (Common Misconceptions) MYTHS (Common Misconceptions) 1 Analysts prove superfluous existence results. MYTHS (Common Misconceptions) 1 Analysts prove superfluous

More information

Part 1 Introduction Degenerate Diffusion and Free-boundaries

Part 1 Introduction Degenerate Diffusion and Free-boundaries Part 1 Introduction Degenerate Diffusion and Free-boundaries Columbia University De Giorgi Center - Pisa June 2012 Introduction We will discuss, in these lectures, certain geometric and analytical aspects

More information

GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018

GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018 GRADUATE MATHEMATICS COURSES, FALL 2018 Math 5043: Introduction to Numerical Analysis MW 9:00 10:20 Prof. D. Szyld During the first semester of this course, the student is introduced to basic concepts

More information

Parabolic PDE. Contents. Connor Mooney. 1 Introduction 3

Parabolic PDE. Contents. Connor Mooney. 1 Introduction 3 Parabolic PDE Connor Mooney Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Representation Formulae 4 2.1 Derivation and Scaling.............................. 4 2.2 The Fundamental Solution............................ 5 2.3

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 10 Apr 2013

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 10 Apr 2013 QUASI-STATIC EVOLUTION AND CONGESTED CROWD TRANSPORT DAMON ALEXANDER, INWON KIM, AND YAO YAO arxiv:1304.3072v1 [math.ap] 10 Apr 2013 Abstract. We consider the relationship between Hele-Shaw evolution with

More information

MATH Final Project Mean Curvature Flows

MATH Final Project Mean Curvature Flows MATH 581 - Final Project Mean Curvature Flows Olivier Mercier April 30, 2012 1 Introduction The mean curvature flow is part of the bigger family of geometric flows, which are flows on a manifold associated

More information

Propagating terraces and the dynamics of front-like solutions of reaction-diffusion equations on R

Propagating terraces and the dynamics of front-like solutions of reaction-diffusion equations on R Propagating terraces and the dynamics of front-like solutions of reaction-diffusion equations on R P. Poláčik School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Abstract We consider semilinear

More information

Sébastien Chaumont a a Institut Élie Cartan, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, B. P. 239, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France. 1.

Sébastien Chaumont a a Institut Élie Cartan, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, B. P. 239, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France. 1. A strong comparison result for viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with Dirichlet condition on a non-smooth boundary and application to parabolic problems Sébastien Chaumont a a Institut

More information

Propagation d interfaces avec termes non locaux

Propagation d interfaces avec termes non locaux Propagation d interfaces avec termes non locaux P. Cardaliaguet Univ. Brest Janvier 2008 Joint works with G. Barles (Tours), O. Alvarez (Rouen), O. Ley (Tours), R. Monneau (CERMICS), A. Monteillet (Brest).

More information

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order David Gilbarg Neil S.Trudinger Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order Reprint of the 1998 Edition Springer Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Part I. Linear Equations Chapter 2. Laplace's Equation

More information

OBSTACLE PROBLEMS AND FREE BOUNDARIES: AN OVERVIEW XAVIER ROS-OTON

OBSTACLE PROBLEMS AND FREE BOUNDARIES: AN OVERVIEW XAVIER ROS-OTON OBSTACLE PROBLEMS AND FREE BOUNDARIES: AN OVERVIEW XAVIER ROS-OTON Abstract. Free boundary problems are those described by PDEs that exhibit a priori unknown (free) interfaces or boundaries. These problems

More information

Asymptotic behavior of the degenerate p Laplacian equation on bounded domains

Asymptotic behavior of the degenerate p Laplacian equation on bounded domains Asymptotic behavior of the degenerate p Laplacian equation on bounded domains Diana Stan Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain UAM, September 19, 2011 Diana Stan (ICMAT & UAM) Nonlinear

More information

Homogeniza*ons in Perforated Domain. Ki Ahm Lee Seoul Na*onal University

Homogeniza*ons in Perforated Domain. Ki Ahm Lee Seoul Na*onal University Homogeniza*ons in Perforated Domain Ki Ahm Lee Seoul Na*onal University Outline 1. Perforated Domain 2. Neumann Problems (joint work with Minha Yoo; interes*ng discussion with Li Ming Yeh) 3. Dirichlet

More information

Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics

Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics William H. Sandholm The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England in Brief Series Foreword Preface xvii xix 1 Introduction 1 1 Population Games 2 Population

More information

Existence, stability and instability for Einstein-scalar field Lichnerowicz equations by Emmanuel Hebey

Existence, stability and instability for Einstein-scalar field Lichnerowicz equations by Emmanuel Hebey Existence, stability and instability for Einstein-scalar field Lichnerowicz equations by Emmanuel Hebey Joint works with Olivier Druet and with Frank Pacard and Dan Pollack Two hours lectures IAS, October

More information

arxiv: v3 [math.ap] 20 Jun 2017

arxiv: v3 [math.ap] 20 Jun 2017 ON A LONG RANGE SEGREGATION MODEL L. CAFFARELLI, S. PATRIZI, AND V. QUITALO arxiv:1505.05433v3 [math.ap] 20 Jun 2017 Abstract. In this work we study the properties of segregation processes modeled by a

More information

POINTWISE BOUNDS ON QUASIMODES OF SEMICLASSICAL SCHRÖDINGER OPERATORS IN DIMENSION TWO

POINTWISE BOUNDS ON QUASIMODES OF SEMICLASSICAL SCHRÖDINGER OPERATORS IN DIMENSION TWO POINTWISE BOUNDS ON QUASIMODES OF SEMICLASSICAL SCHRÖDINGER OPERATORS IN DIMENSION TWO HART F. SMITH AND MACIEJ ZWORSKI Abstract. We prove optimal pointwise bounds on quasimodes of semiclassical Schrödinger

More information

Dedicated to Professor Linda Rothchild on the occasion of her 60th birthday

Dedicated to Professor Linda Rothchild on the occasion of her 60th birthday REARKS ON THE HOOGENEOUS COPLEX ONGE-APÈRE EQUATION PENGFEI GUAN Dedicated to Professor Linda Rothchild on the occasion of her 60th birthday This short note concerns the homogeneous complex onge-ampère

More information

A two phase elliptic singular perturbation problem with a forcing term

A two phase elliptic singular perturbation problem with a forcing term J. Math. Pures Appl. 86 (2006) 552 589 www.elsevier.com/locate/matpur A two phase elliptic singular perturbation problem with a forcing term Claudia Lederman, Noemi Wolanski Departamento de Matemática,

More information

Partial Differential Equations

Partial Differential Equations Partial Differential Equations Analytical Solution Techniques J. Kevorkian University of Washington Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software Pacific Grove, California C H A P T E R 1 The Diffusion

More information

Some Variations on Ricci Flow. Some Variations on Ricci Flow CARLO MANTEGAZZA

Some Variations on Ricci Flow. Some Variations on Ricci Flow CARLO MANTEGAZZA Some Variations on Ricci Flow CARLO MANTEGAZZA Ricci Solitons and other Einstein Type Manifolds A Weak Flow Tangent to Ricci Flow The Ricci flow At the end of 70s beginning of 80s the study of Ricci and

More information

REGULARITY RESULTS FOR THE EQUATION u 11 u 22 = Introduction

REGULARITY RESULTS FOR THE EQUATION u 11 u 22 = Introduction REGULARITY RESULTS FOR THE EQUATION u 11 u 22 = 1 CONNOR MOONEY AND OVIDIU SAVIN Abstract. We study the equation u 11 u 22 = 1 in R 2. Our results include an interior C 2 estimate, classical solvability

More information

THE REGULARITY OF MAPPINGS WITH A CONVEX POTENTIAL LUIS A. CAFFARELLI

THE REGULARITY OF MAPPINGS WITH A CONVEX POTENTIAL LUIS A. CAFFARELLI JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 5, Number I, Jaouary 1992 THE REGULARITY OF MAPPINGS WITH A CONVEX POTENTIAL LUIS A. CAFFARELLI In this work, we apply the techniques developed in [Cl]

More information

Follow links Class Use and other Permissions. For more information, send to:

Follow links Class Use and other Permissions. For more information, send  to: COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Kari Astala, Tadeusz Iwaniec & Gaven Martin: Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane is published by Princeton University Press and copyrighted,

More information

REGULARITY OF THE OPTIMAL SETS FOR SOME SPECTRAL FUNCTIONALS

REGULARITY OF THE OPTIMAL SETS FOR SOME SPECTRAL FUNCTIONALS REGULARITY OF THE OPTIMAL SETS FOR SOME SPECTRAL FUNCTIONALS DARIO MAZZOLENI, SUSANNA TERRACINI, BOZHIDAR VELICHKOV Abstract. In this paper we study the regularity of the optimal sets for the shape optimization

More information

Obstacle problems for nonlocal operators

Obstacle problems for nonlocal operators Obstacle problems for nonlocal operators Camelia Pop School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Fractional PDEs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications ICERM June 19, 2018 Outline Motivation Optimal regularity

More information

Introduction. Hamilton s Ricci flow and its early success

Introduction. Hamilton s Ricci flow and its early success Introduction In this book we compare the linear heat equation on a static manifold with the Ricci flow which is a nonlinear heat equation for a Riemannian metric g(t) on M and with the heat equation on

More information

MEAN VALUE PROPERTY FOR p-harmonic FUNCTIONS

MEAN VALUE PROPERTY FOR p-harmonic FUNCTIONS PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 40, Number 7, July 0, Pages 453 463 S 000-9939(0)8-X Article electronically published on November, 0 MEAN VALUE PROPERTY FOR p-harmonic FUNCTIONS

More information

Some lecture notes for Math 6050E: PDEs, Fall 2016

Some lecture notes for Math 6050E: PDEs, Fall 2016 Some lecture notes for Math 65E: PDEs, Fall 216 Tianling Jin December 1, 216 1 Variational methods We discuss an example of the use of variational methods in obtaining existence of solutions. Theorem 1.1.

More information

Uniformly elliptic equations that hold only at points of large gradient.

Uniformly elliptic equations that hold only at points of large gradient. Uniformly elliptic equations that hold only at points of large gradient. Luis Silvestre University of Chicago Joint work with Cyril Imbert Introduction Introduction Krylov-Safonov Harnack inequality De

More information

The speed of propagation for KPP type problems. II - General domains

The speed of propagation for KPP type problems. II - General domains The speed of propagation for KPP type problems. II - General domains Henri Berestycki a, François Hamel b and Nikolai Nadirashvili c a EHESS, CAMS, 54 Boulevard Raspail, F-75006 Paris, France b Université

More information

A Dirichlet problem in the strip

A Dirichlet problem in the strip Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 1996(1996), No. 10, pp. 1 9. ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.swt.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu ftp (login: ftp) 147.26.103.110 or 129.120.3.113

More information

Advanced Courses in Mathematics CRM Barcelona

Advanced Courses in Mathematics CRM Barcelona Advanced Courses in Mathematics CRM Barcelona Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Managing Editor: Carles Casacuberta More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5038 Giovanna Citti Loukas

More information

Variational problems with free boundaries for the fractional Laplacian

Variational problems with free boundaries for the fractional Laplacian J. Eur. Math. Soc. 12, 1151 1179 c European Mathematical Society 2010 DOI 10.4171/JEMS/226 Luis A. Caffarelli Jean-Michel Roquejoffre Yannick Sire Variational problems with free boundaries for the fractional

More information

TWO NONLINEAR DAYS IN URBINO July 6-7, 2017

TWO NONLINEAR DAYS IN URBINO July 6-7, 2017 TWO NONLINEAR DAYS IN URBINO 2017 July 6-7, 2017 Aula Magna Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate (DiSPeA) Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Piazza della Repubblica, 13 Abstracts On the structure

More information

Dyson series for the PDEs arising in Mathematical Finance I

Dyson series for the PDEs arising in Mathematical Finance I for the PDEs arising in Mathematical Finance I 1 1 Penn State University Mathematical Finance and Probability Seminar, Rutgers, April 12, 2011 www.math.psu.edu/nistor/ This work was supported in part by

More information

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 23 Apr 2018

arxiv: v1 [math.ap] 23 Apr 2018 BERNOULLI FREE BOUNDARY PROBLEM FOR THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN GRAZIANO CRASTA, ILARIA FRAGALÀ arxiv:1804.08573v1 [math.ap] 23 Apr 2018 Abstract. We study the interior Bernoulli free boundary for the infinity

More information

Classification of partial differential equations and their solution characteristics

Classification of partial differential equations and their solution characteristics 9 TH INDO GERMAN WINTER ACADEMY 2010 Classification of partial differential equations and their solution characteristics By Ankita Bhutani IIT Roorkee Tutors: Prof. V. Buwa Prof. S. V. R. Rao Prof. U.

More information

Contents. Preface xi. vii

Contents. Preface xi. vii Preface xi 1. Real Numbers and Monotone Sequences 1 1.1 Introduction; Real numbers 1 1.2 Increasing sequences 3 1.3 Limit of an increasing sequence 4 1.4 Example: the number e 5 1.5 Example: the harmonic

More information

TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTIONS OF ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR DIFFUSION

TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTIONS OF ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR DIFFUSION Annales de l IHP C 00 202 3 logo IHP C TRAVELING WAVE SOLUTIONS OF ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR DIFFUSION L. Monsaingeon a, A. Novikov b, J.-M. Roquejoffre a a Institut de Mathématiques

More information

On level-set approach to motion of manifolds of arbitrary codimension

On level-set approach to motion of manifolds of arbitrary codimension Interfaces and Free Boundaries 5 2003, 417 458 On level-set approach to motion of manifolds of arbitrary codimension DEJAN SLEPČEV Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3,

More information

The De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Estimates

The De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Estimates The De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Estimates We are going to discuss the the equation Lu D i (a ij (x)d j u) = 0 in B 4 R n. (1) The a ij, with i, j {1,..., n}, are functions on the ball B 4. Here and in the following

More information

Key Words: critical point, critical zero point, multiplicity, level sets Mathematics Subject Classification. 35J25; 35B38.

Key Words: critical point, critical zero point, multiplicity, level sets Mathematics Subject Classification. 35J25; 35B38. Critical points of solutions to a kind of linear elliptic equations in multiply connected domains Haiyun Deng 1, Hairong Liu 2, Xiaoping Yang 3 1 School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology,

More information

Symmetry of entire solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations

Symmetry of entire solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations Symmetry of entire solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations Ovidiu Savin Abstract. We discuss a conjecture of De Giorgi concerning the one dimensional symmetry of bounded, monotone in one

More information

1. Introduction Boundary estimates for the second derivatives of the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation

1. Introduction Boundary estimates for the second derivatives of the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation POINTWISE C 2,α ESTIMATES AT THE BOUNDARY FOR THE MONGE-AMPERE EQUATION O. SAVIN Abstract. We prove a localization property of boundary sections for solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation. As a consequence

More information

The one-phase Hele-Shaw Problem with singularities.

The one-phase Hele-Shaw Problem with singularities. The one-phase Hele-Shaw Problem with singularities. David Jerison and Inwon Kim Department of Mathematics, MIT May 25, 2005 Abstract In this paper we analyze viscosity solutions of the one phase Hele-

More information