Calderon-Zygmund type estimates for nonlocal PDE with H\"older continuous kernel
Analysis of PDEs
2021-03-18 v1 Functional Analysis
Abstract
We study interior Lp-regularity theory, also known as Calderon-Zygmund theory, of the equation ∫Rn∫Rn∣x−y∣n+2sK(x,y) (u(x)−u(y))(φ(x)−φ(y))dxdy=⟨f,φ⟩φ∈Cc∞(Rn). For s∈(0,1), t∈[s,2s], p∈[2,∞), K an elliptic, symmetric, H\"older continuous kernel, if f∈(H00t,p′(Ω))∗, then the solution u belongs to Hloc2s−t,p(Ω) as long as 2s−t<1. The increase in differentiability is independent of the H\"older coefficient of K. For example, our result shows that if f∈Llocp then u∈Hloc2s−δ,p for any δ∈(0,s] as long as 2s−δ<1. This is different than the classical analogue of divergence-form equations div(Kˉ∇u)=f (i.e. s=1) where a Cγ-H\"older continuous coefficient Kˉ only allows for estimates of order H1+γ. In fact, it is another appearance of the differential stability effect observed in many forms by many authors for this kind of nonlocal equations -- only that in our case we do not get a "small" differentiability improvement, but all the way up to min{2s−t,1}. The proof argues by comparison with the (much simpler) equation ∫RnK(z,z)(−Δ)2tu(z)(−Δ)22s−tφ(z)dz=⟨g,φ⟩φ∈Cc∞(Rn). and showing that as long as K is H\"older continuous and s,t,2s−t∈(0,1) then the "commutator" ∫RnK(z,z)(−Δ)2tu(z)(−Δ)22s−tφ(z)dz−c∫Rn∫Rn∣x−y∣n+2sK(x,y) (u(x)−u(y))(φ(x)−φ(y))dxdy behaves like a lower order operator.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.11944,
title = {Calderon-Zygmund type estimates for nonlocal PDE with H\"older continuous kernel},
author = {Tadele Mengesha and Armin Schikorra and Sasikarn Yeepo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11944},
year = {2021}
}