Non-existence of cusps for degenerate Alt-Caffarelli functionals

Sean McCurdy, Lisa Naples

We eliminate the existence of cusps in a class of \textit{degenerate} free-boundary problems for the Alt-Caffarelli functional $J_{Q}(v, Ω):= \int_Ω|\nabla v|^2 + Q^2(x)χ_{\{v>0\}}…