Convexity estimates for nonlinear elliptic equations and application to free boundary problems

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 903-926

  Dolbeault, Jean ^a   Monneau, Régis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Coincidence set; Curvature of level sets; Free boundary; Fr chet formula; Fully nonlinear elliptic equations; Gradient estimates; Obstacle problem; Quasi linear elliptic equations

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

OBSTACLE PROBLEMS; QUASI-LINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0347354922     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0294-1449(02)00106-3     Document Type: Article

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