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Main Authors: Salib, Anthony, Weiss, Georg
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18879
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author Salib, Anthony
Weiss, Georg
author_facet Salib, Anthony
Weiss, Georg
contents Global solutions to the obstacle problem were first completely classified in two dimensions by Sakai using complex analysis techniques. Although the complex analysis approach produced a very succinct proof in two dimensions, it left the higher dimensional cases, and even closely related problems in two dimensions, unresolved. A complete classification in dimensions $n\geq 3$ was recently given by Eberle, Figalli and Weiss, forty years after Sakai published his proof. In this paper we give a proof of Sakai's classification result for unbounded coincidence sets in the spirit of the recent proof by Eberle, Figalli and Weiss. Our approach, in particular, avoids the need for complex analysis techniques and offers new perspectives on two-dimensional problems that complex analysis cannot address.
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spellingShingle Classification of global solutions to the obstacle problem in the plane
Salib, Anthony
Weiss, Georg
Analysis of PDEs
35B08, 35R35
Global solutions to the obstacle problem were first completely classified in two dimensions by Sakai using complex analysis techniques. Although the complex analysis approach produced a very succinct proof in two dimensions, it left the higher dimensional cases, and even closely related problems in two dimensions, unresolved. A complete classification in dimensions $n\geq 3$ was recently given by Eberle, Figalli and Weiss, forty years after Sakai published his proof. In this paper we give a proof of Sakai's classification result for unbounded coincidence sets in the spirit of the recent proof by Eberle, Figalli and Weiss. Our approach, in particular, avoids the need for complex analysis techniques and offers new perspectives on two-dimensional problems that complex analysis cannot address.
title Classification of global solutions to the obstacle problem in the plane
topic Analysis of PDEs
35B08, 35R35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18879