On a Multiphase Vectorial Bernoulli Free Boundary Problem

Abstract

We study the regularity of minimizers of a multiphase vectorial Bernoulli free boundary problem. This problem consists in a minimization problem for the Bernoulli functional over families of Sobolev functions with disjoint supports and non trivial grouping. We prove that minimizers exist, are locally Lipschitz continuous, and that their free boundaries do not contain points where three or more phases meet. Our main regularity result establishes that the free boundary is locally a $C^{1,η}$ graph near two-phase and branching points for some $η>0$.