A Gradient Bound for Free Boundary Graphs

We prove an analogue for a one-phase free boundary problem of the classical gradient bound for solutions to the minimal surface equation. It follows, in particular, that every energy-minimizing free boundary that is a graph is also smooth. The method we use also leads to a new proof of the classical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: De Silva, Daniela, Jerison, David S.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71210
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9357-7524