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We study the singular part of the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian, $minbigl{(-Delta)^su,,u-varphibigr}=0$ in $mathbb R^n$, for general obstacles $varphi$. Our main result establishes the complete structure and regularity of the singular set. To prove it, we construct new monotonicity formulas of Monneau-type that extend those in cite{GP} to all $sin(0,1)$.
We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.
We revisit and sharpen the results from our previous work, where we investigated the regularity of the singular set of the free boundary in the nonlinear obstacle problem. As in the work of Figalli-Serra on the classical obstacle problem, we show that each stratum can be further decomposed into a `good part and an `anomalous part, where the former is covered by $C^{1,1-}$ manifolds, and the latter is of lower dimension.
In this paper we give a full classification of global solutions of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian (including the thin obstacle problem) with compact coincidence set and at most polynomial growth in dimension $N geq 3$. We do this in terms of a bijection onto a set of polynomials describing the asymptotics of the solution. Furthermore we prove that coincidence sets of global solutions that are compact are also convex if the solution has at most quadratic growth.
The parabolic obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian naturally arises in American option models when the assets prices are driven by pure jump Levy processes. In this paper we study the regularity of the free boundary. Our main result establishes that, when $s>frac12$, the free boundary is a $C^{1,alpha}$ graph in $x$ and $t$ near any regular free boundary point $(x_0,t_0)in partial{u>varphi}$. Furthermore, we also prove that solutions $u$ are $C^{1+s}$ in $x$ and $t$ near such points, with a precise expansion of the form [u(x,t)-varphi(x)=c_0bigl((x-x_0)cdot e+a(t-t_0)bigr)_+^{1+s}+obigl(|x-x_0|^{1+s+alpha}+ |t-t_0|^{1+s+alpha}bigr),] with $c_0>0$, $ein mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, and $a>0$.
We study the regularity of the free boundary in the obstacle for the $p$-Laplacian, $minbigl{-Delta_p u,,u-varphibigr}=0$ in $Omegasubsetmathbb R^n$. Here, $Delta_p u=textrm{div}bigl(| abla u|^{p-2} abla ubigr)$, and $pin(1,2)cup(2,infty)$. Near those free boundary points where $ abla varphi eq0$, the operator $Delta_p$ is uniformly elliptic and smooth, and hence the free boundary is well understood. However, when $ abla varphi=0$ then $Delta_p$ is singular or degenerate, and nothing was known about the regularity of the free boundary at those points. Here we study the regularity of the free boundary where $ abla varphi=0$. On the one hand, for every $p eq2$ we construct explicit global $2$-homogeneous solutions to the $p$-Laplacian obstacle problem whose free boundaries have a corner at the origin. In particular, we show that the free boundary is in general not $C^1$ at points where $ abla varphi=0$. On the other hand, under the concavity assumption $| abla varphi|^{2-p}Delta_p varphi<0$, we show the free boundary is countably $(n-1)$-rectifiable and we prove a nondegeneracy property for $u$ at all free boundary points.