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(2015.6.10 15:40 N818)Professor Kanishka Perera:Existence and regularity of higher critical points in elliptic free boundary problems
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Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS
Colloquia & Seminars

Speaker:

Professor Kanishka Perera,Florida Institute of Technology, USA

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Title:
Existence and regularity of higher critical points in elliptic free boundary problems
Time & Venue:
2015.6.10 15:40-16:40 N818
Abstract:
Existence and regularity of minimizers in elliptic free boundary problems have been extensively studied in the literature. We initiate the corresponding study of higher critical points by considering a superlinear free boundary problem related to plasma confinement. The associated energy functional is nondifferentiable, and therefore standard variational methods cannot be used directly to prove the existence of critical points. Here we obtain a nontrivial generalized solution $u$ of mountain pass type as the limit of mountain pass points of a suitable sequence of C^1-functionals approximating the energy. We show that $u$ minimizes the energy on the associated Nehari manifold and use this fact to prove that it is nondegenerate. We use the nondegeneracy of $u$ to show that it satisfies the free boundary condition in the viscosity sense. Moreover, near any free boundary point that has a measure-theoretic normal, the free boundary is a smooth surface, and hence the free boundary condition holds in the classical sense. (jointly with David Jerison)
 

 

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