Caffarelli's work on elliptic free boundary problems

2024/08/13 by Camillo De Lellis, De Lellis, Camillo
Computer Science · Engineering · #35J15 #35J20 #35R35 #Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities #FOS: Mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.07007

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Abstract

The aim of the note is to illustrate some of the ideas introduced by Luis Caffarelli in his groundbreaking works on the regularity theory for elliptic free boundary problems, in a way which can be understood by non-experts.

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