Local Elliptic Regularity for the Dirichlet Fractional Laplacian

Abstract

We prove the W loc 2 ⁢ s , p ${W_{{\mathrm{loc}}}^{2s,p}}$ local elliptic regularity of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with the fractional Laplacian on an arbitrary bounded open set of ℝ N ${\mathbb{R}^{N}}$ . The key tool consists in analyzing carefully the elliptic equation satisfied by the solution locally, after cut-off, to later employ sharp regularity results in the whole space. We do it by two different methods. First working directly in the variational formulation of the elliptic problem and then employing the heat kernel representation of solutions.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Apr 21, 2017
Source ID
10.1515/ans-2017-0014

Entities

People

  • Enrique Zuazua
  • Mahamadi Warma
  • Umberto Biccari

Organizations

  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche
  • Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
  • United States Air Force
  • University of Puerto Rico

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Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)

Technology Areas

  • Space