AN OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM WITH FREE BOUNDARY GOVERNED BY A DEGENERATE QUASILINEAR OPERATOR

In this paper we study the existence, regularity and geomet- ric properties of an optimal configuration to a free boundary optimiza- tion problem governed by the p-Laplacian operator.

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