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Boundary regularity estimates for nonlocal elliptic equations in $C^1$ and $C^{1,\alpha}$ domains

Analysis of PDEs 2016-03-07 v2

Abstract

We establish sharp boundary regularity estimates in C1C^1 and C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domains for nonlocal problems of the form Lu=fLu=f in Ω\Omega, u=0u=0 in Ωc\Omega^c. Here, LL is a nonlocal elliptic operator of order 2s2s, with s(0,1)s\in(0,1). First, in C1,αC^{1,\alpha} domains we show that all solutions uu are CsC^s up to the boundary and that u/dsCα(Ωˉ)u/d^s\in C^\alpha(\bar\Omega), where dd is the distance to Ω\partial\Omega. In C1C^1 domains, solutions are in general not comparable to dsd^s, and we prove a boundary Harnack principle in such domains. Namely, we show that if u1u_1 and u2u_2 are positive solutions, then u1/u2u_1/u_2 is bounded and H\"older continuous up to the boundary. Finally, we establish analogous results for nonlocal equations with bounded measurable coefficients in non-divergence form. All these regularity results will be essential tools in a forthcoming work on free boundary problems for nonlocal elliptic operators \cite{CRS-obstacle}.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07171,
  title  = {Boundary regularity estimates for nonlocal elliptic equations in $C^1$ and $C^{1,\alpha}$ domains},
  author = {Xavier Ros-Oton and Joaquim Serra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07171},
  year   = {2016}
}