Variational inequalities with lack of ellipticity part I: Optimal interior regularity and non-degeneracy of the free boundary

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-398

  Danielli, Donatella ^a   Garofalo, Nicola ^a   Salsa, Sandro ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carnot groups; Free boundaries; Obstacle problem; Sub elliptic equations; Theorems of Rademacher Stepanov type

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038472375     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2003.52.2088     Document Type: Article

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