Generic regularity of free boundaries in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian

Abstract

We establish generic regularity results of free boundaries for solutions of the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\hat{I}”{)}^s$. We prove that, for almost every obstacle, the free boundary contains only regular points up to dimension $3$, for every $s\in (0,1)$. To do so, we extend some results on the fine structure of the free boundary to the case $s\in (0,1)$ and general non-zero obstacle, including a blow-up analysis at points with frequency $2m+2s$, and we prove new explicit uniform frequency gaps for solutions of the fractional obstacle problem.