The free-boundary Brakke flow

We develop the notion of Brakke flow with free-boundary in a barrier surface. Unlike the classical free-boundary mean curvature flow, the free-boundary Brakke flow must “pop” upon tangential contact with the barrier. We prove a compactness theorem for free-boundary Brakke flows, define a Gaussian monotonicity formula valid at all points, and use this to adapt the local regularity theorem of White [23] to the free-boundary setting. Using Ilmanen’s elliptic regularization procedure [10], we prove existence of free-boundary Brakke flows.

Finite Morse index solutions of the Hénon Lane–Emden equation

In this paper, we are concerned with Liouville-type theorems of the Hénon Lane–Emden triharmonic equations in whole space. We prove Liouville-type theorems for solutions belonging to one of the following classes: stable solutions and finite Morse index solutions (whether positive or sign-changing). Our proof is based on a combination of the Pohozaev-type identity, monotonicity formula of solutions and a blowing down sequence.