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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 LpL^p-regularity theory, also known as Calderon-Zygmund theory, of the equation RnRnK(x,y) (u(x)u(y))(φ(x)φ(y))xyn+2sdxdy=f,φφCc(Rn). \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{K(x,y)\ (u(x)-u(y))\, (\varphi(x)-\varphi(y))}{|x-y|^{n+2s}}\, dx\, dy = \langle f, \varphi \rangle \quad \varphi \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n). For s(0,1)s \in (0,1), t[s,2s]t \in [s,2s], p[2,)p \in [2,\infty), KK an elliptic, symmetric, H\"older continuous kernel, if f(H00t,p(Ω))f \in \left (H^{t,p'}_{00}(\Omega)\right )^\ast, then the solution uu belongs to Hloc2st,p(Ω)H^{2s-t,p}_{loc}(\Omega) as long as 2st<12s-t < 1. The increase in differentiability is independent of the H\"older coefficient of KK. For example, our result shows that if fLlocpf\in L^{p}_{loc} then uHloc2sδ,pu\in H^{2s-\delta,p}_{loc} for any δ(0,s]\delta\in (0, s] as long as 2sδ<12s-\delta < 1. This is different than the classical analogue of divergence-form equations div(Kˉu)=f{\rm div}(\bar{K} \nabla u) = f (i.e. s=1s=1) where a CγC^\gamma-H\"older continuous coefficient Kˉ\bar{K} only allows for estimates of order H1+γH^{1+\gamma}. 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{2st,1}\min\{2s-t,1\}. The proof argues by comparison with the (much simpler) equation RnK(z,z)(Δ)t2u(z)(Δ)2st2φ(z)dz=g,φφCc(Rn). \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} K(z,z) (-\Delta)^{\frac{t}{2}} u(z) \, (-\Delta)^{\frac{2s-t}{2}} \varphi(z)\, dz = \langle g,\varphi\rangle \quad \varphi \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n). and showing that as long as KK is H\"older continuous and s,t,2st(0,1)s,t, 2s-t \in (0,1) then the "commutator" RnK(z,z)(Δ)t2u(z)(Δ)2st2φ(z)dzcRnRnK(x,y) (u(x)u(y))(φ(x)φ(y))xyn+2sdxdy \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} K(z,z) (-\Delta)^{\frac{t}{2}} u(z) \, (-\Delta)^{\frac{2s-t}{2}} \varphi(z)\, dz - c\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{K(x,y)\ (u(x)-u(y))\, (\varphi(x)-\varphi(y))}{|x-y|^{n+2s}}\, dx\, dy behaves like a lower order operator.

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@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}
}
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