On indecomposable trees in the boundary of outer space

Let T be an \mathbbR{\mathbb{R}}-tree, equipped with a very small action of the rank n free group F _n , and let H ≤ F _n be finitely generated. We consider the case where the action F_n \curvearrowright T{F_n \curvearrowright T} is indecomposable–this is a strong mixing property introduced by Guirardel. In this case, we show that the action of H on its minimal invarinat subtree T _H has dense orbits if and only if H is finite index in F _n . There is an interesting application to dual algebraic laminations; we show that for T free and indecomposable and for H ≤ F _n finitely generated, H carries a leaf of the dual lamination of T if and only if H is finite index in F _n . This generalizes a result of Bestvina-Feighn-Handel regarding stable trees of fully irreducible automorphisms.     

The boundary of a Busemann space

Let be a proper Busemann space. Then there is a well defined boundary, , for . Moreover, if is (Gromov) hyperbolic (resp. non-positively curved), then this boundary is homeomorphic to the hyperbolic (resp. non-positively curved) boundary.

     

General free boundary evolution problems in several space dimensions

Existence results are given for the weak formulation of two-phase free boundary evolution problems, with free boundary jump conditions generalizing that of Stefan and with possibly vanishing coefficient of time derivative.     

Global existence and blowup of a nonlocal problem in space with free boundary

This paper concerns a double fronts free boundary problem for the reaction–diffusion equation with a nonlocal nonlinear reaction term in space. For such a problem, we mainly study the blowup property and global existence of the solutions. Our results show that if the initial value is sufficiently large, then the blowup occurs, while the global fast solution exists for a sufficiently small initial data, and the intermediate case with a suitably large initial data gives the existence of the global slow solution.     

Universal space in the Cartesian product of Peano curves without free arcs

We prove that there is the universal space for the class of n-dimensional separable metric spaces in the Cartesian product K₁×?×Kn+1 of Peano curves without free arcs. It is also shown that the set of embeddings of any n-dimensional separable metric space X into this universal space is a residual set in C(X,K₁×?×Kn+1). Other properties of product of Peano curves without free arcs are also proved.     

The behavior of the free boundary near the fixed boundary for a minimization problem

We show that the free boundary ∂{u > 0}, arising from the minimizer(s) u, of the functional

Scattering of elastic waves in a perturbed isotropic half space with a free boundary. The limiting absorption principle

In this article we consider the self-adjoint operator governing the propagation of elastic waves in a perturbed isotropic half space with a free boundary condition. We prove the limiting absorption principle in appropriate Hilbert spaces for this operator. We also prove decreasing properties for the eigenfunctions associated with strictly positive eigenvalues of this operator. The proofs are based on the limiting absorption principle for the self-adjoint operator governing the propagation of elastic waves in a homogeneous isotropic half space with a free boundary and on the so called division theorem for it. Both perturbations of R ₊² ={(x₁, x₂) ? R ²; x₂ > 0} and R ₊² = {(x₁, x₂, x₃) ? R ³; x₃ > 0} are considered.     

The distance function from the boundary in a Minkowski space

Let the space be endowed with a Minkowski structure (that is, is the gauge function of a compact convex set having the origin as an interior point, and with boundary of class ), and let be the (asymmetric) distance associated to . Given an open domain of class , let be the Minkowski distance of a point from the boundary of . We prove that a suitable extension of to (which plays the rôle of a signed Minkowski distance to ) is of class in a tubular neighborhood of , and that is of class outside the cut locus of (that is, the closure of the set of points of nondifferentiability of in ). In addition, we prove that the cut locus of has Lebesgue measure zero, and that can be decomposed, up to this set of vanishing measure, into geodesics starting from and going into along the normal direction (with respect to the Minkowski distance). We compute explicitly the Jacobian determinant of the change of variables that associates to every point outside the cut locus the pair , where denotes the (unique) projection of on , and we apply these techniques to the analysis of PDEs of Monge-Kantorovich type arising from problems in optimal transportation theory and shape optimization.

     

The product of a Baire space with a hereditarily Baire metric space is Baire

In this paper we prove that the product of a Baire space with a metrizable hereditarily Baire space is again a Baire space. This answers a recent question of J. Chaber and R. Pol.

     

The regularity of the free boundary in a multidimensional filtration problem

We prove the regularity of the free boundary for a filtration problem with capillarity in more than one space dimension. The free boundary is the interface between the saturated region (in which the governing equation is elliptic) and the unsaturated region (where a degenerate parabolic equation is to be solved).This work was partially supported by National Project Equazioni di Evoluzione e Applicazioni Fisico Matematiche (M.U.R.S.T.).     

Regularity of a free boundary problem

Let u be the Newtonian potential of a real analytic distribution in an open set Ω. In this paper we assume u is analytically continuable from the complement of Ω into some neighborhood of a point x₀ ∈ ∂Ω, and we study conditions under which the analytic continuation implies that ∂Ω is a real analytic hypersurface in some neighborhood of x₀.