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Main Authors: Bucur, Claudia, Lombardini, Luca
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11520
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author Bucur, Claudia
Lombardini, Luca
author_facet Bucur, Claudia
Lombardini, Luca
contents In this paper, we introduce a functional and a geometric setting for an obstacle problem for nonlocal minimal graphs. In particular we study existence of solutions, a priori estimates, and we prove the equivalence of the two settings. We then observe a striking stickiness phenomena when the fractional parameter is small and the data at infinity is not too large: the nonlocal minimal graphs adhere entirely to the obstacle and leave the remainder of the domain asymptotically empty. We thus provide a class of examples where continuity of nonlocal minimal graphs across the boundary and across the obstacle may fail.
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spellingShingle Asymptotics as $s\searrow 0$ of the nonlocal nonparametric Plateau problem with obstacles
Bucur, Claudia
Lombardini, Luca
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper, we introduce a functional and a geometric setting for an obstacle problem for nonlocal minimal graphs. In particular we study existence of solutions, a priori estimates, and we prove the equivalence of the two settings. We then observe a striking stickiness phenomena when the fractional parameter is small and the data at infinity is not too large: the nonlocal minimal graphs adhere entirely to the obstacle and leave the remainder of the domain asymptotically empty. We thus provide a class of examples where continuity of nonlocal minimal graphs across the boundary and across the obstacle may fail.
title Asymptotics as $s\searrow 0$ of the nonlocal nonparametric Plateau problem with obstacles
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11520