For free boundary problems on Euclidean spaces, the monotonicity formulas of Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman and Caffarelli-Jerison-Kenig are cornerstones for the regularity theory as well as the existence theory. In this article we establish the analogs of
these results for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian manifolds. As an application we show that our monotonicity theorems can be employed to prove the Lipschitz continuity for the solutions of a general class of two-phase free boundary problems on Riemannian manifolds.
We consider a sequence of blowup solutions of a two dimensional, second order elliptic equation with exponential nonlinearity and singular data. This equation has a rich background in physics and geometry. In a work of Bartolucci-Chen-Lin-Tarantello
it is proved that the profile of the solutions differs from global solutions of a Liouville type equation only by a uniformly bounded term. The present paper improves their result and establishes an expansion of the solutions near the blowup points with a sharp error estimate.
We consider positive solutions of $Delta u-mu u+Ku^{frac{n+2}{n-2}}=0$ on $B_1$ ($nge 5$) where $mu $ and $K>0$ are smooth functions on $B_1$. If $K$ is very sub-harmonic at each critical point of $K$ in $B_{2/3}$ and the maximum of $u$ in $bar B_{1/
3}$ is comparable to its maximum over $bar B_1$, then all positive solutions are uniformly bounded on $bar B_{1/3}$. As an application, a priori estimate for solutions of equations defined on $mathbb S^n$ is derived.
Let $(M,g)$ be a complete three dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary $partial M$. Given smooth functions $K(x)>0$ and $c(x)$ defined on $M$ and $partial M$, respectively, it is natural to ask whether there exist metrics conformal to $g$ so t
hat under these new metrics, $K$ is the scalar curvature and $c$ is the boundary mean curvature. All such metrics can be described by a prescribing curvature equation with a boundary condition. With suitable assumptions on $K$,$c$ and $(M,g)$ we show that all the solutions of the equation can only blow up at finite points over each compact subset of $bar M$, some of them may appear on $partial M$. We describe the asymptotic behavior of the blowup solutions around each blowup point and derive an energy estimate as a consequence.
