Regularity of Lipschitz free boundaries for weak solutions of Alt-Caffarelli type problems

Abstract: Motivated by the Serrin problem, we study weak solutions of the generalised Alt-Caffarelli problem $-Δu = f$ in $Ω$, $u = 0$ on $\partialΩ$, $\partial_νu = Q$ on $\partialΩ$. Our main result establishes that if $Ω$ is Lipschitz, then it is actually $C^{\infty}$ (provided that $f$ and $Q$ are smooth). This was known before only for viscosity solutions. As a corollary, we obtain an alternative solution of Serrin's problem in the case of Lipschitz domains. We also discuss the characterisation of the regularity of Lipschitz domains in terms of their Poisson kernel.