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We study the obstacle problem in two dimensions. On the one hand we improve a result of L.A. Caffarelli and N.M. Rivière: we state that every connected component of the interior of the coincidence set has at most N 0 singular points, where N 0 is only dependent on some geometric constants. Moreover, if the component is small enough, then this component has at most two singular points. On the other hand, we prove in a simple case a conjecture of D.G. Schaeffer on the generic regularity of the free boundary: for a family of obstacle problems in two dimensions continuously indexed by a parameter λ, the free boundary of the solution uλ is analytic for almost every λ. Finally we present a new monotonicity formula for singular points.
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Monneau, R. On the number of singularities for the obstacle problem in two dimensions. J Geom Anal 13, 359–389 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930701
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