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Higher Critical Points in an Elliptic Free Boundary Problem

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Jerison, David S; Perera, Kanishka
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Abstract
We study higher critical points of the variational functional associated with a free boundary problem related to plasma confinement. Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have already been studied extensively. But because the functionals are not smooth, standard variational methods cannot be used directly to prove the existence of higher critical points. Here we find a nontrivial critical point of mountain pass type and prove many of the same estimates known for minimizers, including Lipschitz continuity and nondegeneracy. We then show that the free boundary is smooth in dimension 2 and prove partial regularity in higher dimensions.
Date issued
2017-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116541
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Journal
Journal of Geometric Analysis
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Citation
Jerison, David, and Kanishka Perera. “Higher Critical Points in an Elliptic Free Boundary Problem.” The Journal of Geometric Analysis 28, no. 2 (May 27, 2017): 1258–1294.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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1050-6926
1559-002X

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