On the number of singularities for the obstacle problem in two dimensions

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 359-389

  Monneau, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

blow up limit; free boundary; generic regularity; monotonicity formula; obstacle problem; singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867974824     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02930701     Document Type: Article

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