Cut Locus on Compact Manifolds and Uniform Semiconcavity Estimates for a Variational Inequality

We study a family of gradient obstacle problems on a compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that the solutions of these free boundary problems are uniformly semiconcave and, as a consequence, we obtain some fine convergence results for the solutions and their free boundaries. Precisely, we show that the elastic and the $\lambda$-elastic sets of the solutions Hausdorff converge to the cut locus and the $\lambda$-cut locus of the manifold.

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