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Main Authors: Caffarelli, Luis, Farah, Antonio, Restrepo, Daniel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12548
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author Caffarelli, Luis
Farah, Antonio
Restrepo, Daniel
author_facet Caffarelli, Luis
Farah, Antonio
Restrepo, Daniel
contents In this paper, we establish regularity and uniqueness results for Grad-Mercier type equations that arise in the context of plasma physics. We show that solutions of this problem naturally develop a dead core, which corresponds to the set where the solutions become identically equal to their maximum. We prove uniqueness, sharp regularity, and non-degeneracy bounds for solutions under suitable assumptions on the reaction term. Of independent interest, our methods allow us to prove that the free boundaries of a broad class of semilinear equations have locally finite $H^{n-1}$ measure.
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spellingShingle On the Grad-Mercier equation and Semilinear Free Boundary Problems
Caffarelli, Luis
Farah, Antonio
Restrepo, Daniel
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper, we establish regularity and uniqueness results for Grad-Mercier type equations that arise in the context of plasma physics. We show that solutions of this problem naturally develop a dead core, which corresponds to the set where the solutions become identically equal to their maximum. We prove uniqueness, sharp regularity, and non-degeneracy bounds for solutions under suitable assumptions on the reaction term. Of independent interest, our methods allow us to prove that the free boundaries of a broad class of semilinear equations have locally finite $H^{n-1}$ measure.
title On the Grad-Mercier equation and Semilinear Free Boundary Problems
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12548