Abstract
We give an example of a pair of nonnegative subharmonic functions with disjoint support for which the Alt–Caffarelli–Friedman monotonicity formula has strictly positive limit at the origin, and yet the interface between their supports lacks a (unique) tangent there. This clarifies a remark of Caffarelli and Salsa (A geometric approach to free boundary problems, 2005) that the positivity of the limit of the ACF formula implies unique tangents; this is true under some additional assumptions, but false in general. In our example, blow-ups converge to the expected piecewise linear two-plane function along subsequences, but the limiting function depends on the subsequence due to the spiraling nature of the interface.
Citation
Mark Allen. Dennis Kriventsov. "A spiral interface with positive Alt–Caffarelli–Friedman limit at the origin." Anal. PDE 13 (1) 201 - 214, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2140/apde.2020.13.201
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