On a class of thin obstacle-type problems for the bi-Laplacian operator

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Main Authors: Danielli, Donatella, Gravina, Giovanni
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Published: 2025
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author Danielli, Donatella
Gravina, Giovanni
author_facet Danielli, Donatella
Gravina, Giovanni
contents This paper investigates the regularity of solutions and structural properties of the free boundary for a class of fourth-order elliptic problems with Neumann-type boundary conditions. The singular and degenerate elliptic operators studied naturally emerge from the extension procedure for higher-order fractional powers of the Laplacian, while the choice of non-linearity considered encompasses two-phase boundary obstacle problems as a special case. After establishing local regularity properties of solutions, Almgren- and Monneau-type monotonicity formulas are derived and utilized to carry out a blow-up analysis and prove a stratification result for the free boundary.
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spellingShingle On a class of thin obstacle-type problems for the bi-Laplacian operator
Danielli, Donatella
Gravina, Giovanni
Analysis of PDEs
35R35, 35J35, 35J58
This paper investigates the regularity of solutions and structural properties of the free boundary for a class of fourth-order elliptic problems with Neumann-type boundary conditions. The singular and degenerate elliptic operators studied naturally emerge from the extension procedure for higher-order fractional powers of the Laplacian, while the choice of non-linearity considered encompasses two-phase boundary obstacle problems as a special case. After establishing local regularity properties of solutions, Almgren- and Monneau-type monotonicity formulas are derived and utilized to carry out a blow-up analysis and prove a stratification result for the free boundary.
title On a class of thin obstacle-type problems for the bi-Laplacian operator
topic Analysis of PDEs
35R35, 35J35, 35J58
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11372