Regularity of Neumann solutions to an elliptic free boundary problem
| Autor: | Raynor, Sarah Groff, 1977 |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Diplomová práce |
| Popis: | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-58). 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 ... by Sarah Groff Raynor. Ph.D. |
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