Regularity for degenerate two-phase free boundary problems》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect Ann. I. H. Poincaré – AN 32 (2015) 741–762 /locate/anihpc Regularity for degenerate two-phase free boundary problems Raimundo Leitão a , Olivaine S. de Queiroz b , Eduardo V. Teixeira c,∗ a CMUC, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 3001-501, Coimbra, Portugal b Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IMECC, Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 651, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083-859, Brazil c Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus of Pici, Bloco 914, Fortaleza, Ceará, 60455-760, Brazil Received 23 June 2013; accepted 7 March 2014 Available online 3 April 2014 Abstract We provide a rather complete description of the sharp regularity theory to a family of heterogeneous, two-phase free boundary problems, Jγ → min, ruled by nonlinear, p-degenerate elliptic operators. Included in such family are heterogeneous cavitation problems of Prandtl–Batchelor type, singular degenerate elliptic equations; and obstacle type systems. The Euler–Lagrange equa- tion associated to Jγ becomes singular along the free interface {u = 0}. The degree of singularity is, in turn, dimmed by the parameter γ ∈ [0, 1]. For 0 γ 1 we show that local minima are locally of class C 1,α for a sharp α that depends on dimension, p and γ . For γ = 0 we obtain a quantitative, asymptotically optimal result, which assures that local minima are Log-Lipschitz continuous. The results proven in this article are new even in the classic