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All functions are locally $s$-harmonic up to a small error

Analysis of PDEs 2015-03-17 v2

Abstract

We show that we can approximate every function fCk(B1ˉ)f\in C^{k}(\bar{B_1}) with a ss-harmonic function in B1B_1 that vanishes outside a compact set. That is, ss-harmonic functions are dense in ClockC^{k}_{\rm{loc}}. This result is clearly in contrast with the rigidity of harmonic functions in the classical case and can be viewed as a purely nonlocal feature.

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@article{arxiv.1404.3652,
  title  = {All functions are locally $s$-harmonic up to a small error},
  author = {Serena Dipierro and Ovidiu Savin and Enrico Valdinoci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3652},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS)

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