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We describe the main results obtained in a joint work with Athanasopoulos and Caffarelli on the regularity of viscosity solutions and of their free boundaries for a rather general class of parabolic phase transition problems.
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Salsa, S. Regularity in parabolic phase transition problems. The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications 4, 549–564 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02498224
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