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Boundary regularity for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-07 v3

Abstract

We study fine boundary regularity properties of solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic integro-differential equations of order 2s2s, with s(0,1)s\in(0,1). We consider the class of nonlocal operators LL0\mathcal L_*\subset \mathcal L_0, which consists of infinitesimal generators of stable L\'evy processes belonging to the class L0\mathcal L_0 of Caffarelli-Silvestre. For fully nonlinear operators II elliptic with respect to L\mathcal L_*, we prove that solutions to Iu=fI u=f in Ω\Omega, u=0u=0 in RnΩ\mathbb R^n\setminus\Omega, satisfy u/dsCs+γ(Ω)u/d^s\in C^{s+\gamma}(\overline\Omega), where dd is the distance to Ω\partial\Omega and fCγf\in C^\gamma. We expect the class L\mathcal L_* to be the largest scale invariant subclass of L0\mathcal L_0 for which this result is true. In this direction, we show that the class L0\mathcal L_0 is too large for all solutions to behave like dsd^s. The constants in all the estimates in this paper remain bounded as the order of the equation approaches 2. Thus, in the limit s1s\uparrow1 we recover the celebrated boundary regularity result due to Krylov for fully nonlinear elliptic equations.

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@article{arxiv.1404.1197,
  title  = {Boundary regularity for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations},
  author = {Xavier Ros-Oton and Joaquim Serra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1197},
  year   = {2016}
}

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To appear in Duke Math. J

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