A new monotonicity formula for quasilinear elliptic free boundary problems

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Main Author: Karakhanyan, Aram
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contents We construct a monotonicity formula for a class of free boundary problems associated with the stationary points of the functional \[ J(u)=\int_ΩF(|\nabla u|^2)+\mbox{meas}(\{u>0\}\cap Ω), \] where $F$ is a density function satisfying some structural conditions. The onus of proof lies with the careful analysis of the ghost function, the gradient part in the Helmholtz-Wéyl decomposition of a nonlinear flux that appears in the domain variation formula for $J(u)$. As an application we prove full regularity for a class of quasilinear Bernoulli type free boundary problems in $\R^3$.
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spellingShingle A new monotonicity formula for quasilinear elliptic free boundary problems
Karakhanyan, Aram
Analysis of PDEs
We construct a monotonicity formula for a class of free boundary problems associated with the stationary points of the functional \[ J(u)=\int_ΩF(|\nabla u|^2)+\mbox{meas}(\{u>0\}\cap Ω), \] where $F$ is a density function satisfying some structural conditions. The onus of proof lies with the careful analysis of the ghost function, the gradient part in the Helmholtz-Wéyl decomposition of a nonlinear flux that appears in the domain variation formula for $J(u)$. As an application we prove full regularity for a class of quasilinear Bernoulli type free boundary problems in $\R^3$.
title A new monotonicity formula for quasilinear elliptic free boundary problems
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01175