Regularity of the free boundary in the biharmonic obstacle problem
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چکیده
In this article we use flatness improvement argument to study the regularity of the free boundary for the biharmonic obstacle problem with zero obstacle. Assuming that the solution is almost one-dimensional, and that the non-coincidence set is an non-tangentially accessible (NTA) domain, we derive the C-regularity of the free boundary in a small ball centered at the origin. From the C-regularity of the free boundary we conclude that the solution to the biharmonic obstacle problem is locally C up to the free boundary, and therefore C. In the end we study an example, showing that in general C 1 2 is the best regularity that a solution may achieve in dimension n ≥ 2.
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