Solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with patches of zero gradient: Existence, regularity and convexity of level curves

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03009-XzbMath0992.35101MaRDI QIDQ4529730

Luis A. Caffarelli, Jorge A. Salazar

Publication date: 6 May 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

regularityviscosity solutionssuperconducting vortices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Boundary value and inverse problems for harmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B20)

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