JournalsjemsVol. 12, No. 5pp. 1151–1179

Variational problems with free boundaries for the fractional Laplacian

  • Luis A. Caffarelli

    University of Texas at Austin, USA

  • Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

    Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

  • Yannick Sire

    Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
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Abstract

We discuss properties (optimal regularity, non-degeneracy, smoothness of the free boundary...) of a variational interface problem involving the fractional Laplacian; Due to the non-locality of the Dirichlet problem, the task is nontrivial. This difficulty is by-passed by an extension formula, discovered by the first author and Silvestre, which reduces the study to that of a co-dimension 2 (degenerate) free boundary.

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Luis A. Caffarelli, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Yannick Sire, Variational problems with free boundaries for the fractional Laplacian. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 12 (2010), no. 5, pp. 1151–1179

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/226