Regularity of Neumann solutions to an elliptic free boundary problem
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Author(s)
Raynor, Sarah Groff, 1977-
Advisor(s)
David S. Jerison.
Date Issued
2003
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We examine the regularity properties of solutions to an elliptic free boundary problem, near a Neumann fixed boundary. Consider a nonnegative function u which minimizes the functional ... on a bounded, convex domain ... This function u is harmonic in its positive phase and satisfies ... along the free boundary ... , in a weak sense. We prove various basic properties of such a minimizer near the portion of the boundary ... on which ... weakly. These results include up-to-the boundary gradient estimates on harmonic functions with Neumann boundary conditions on convex domains. The main result is that the minimizer u is Lipschitz continuous. The proof in dimension 2 is by means of conformal mapping as well as a simplified monotonicity formula. In higher dimensions, the proof is via a maximum principle estimate for ...
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58).
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Mathematics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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