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Gradient regularity for $(s,p)$-harmonic functions

Analysis of PDEs 2024-09-04 v1

Abstract

We study the local regularity properties of (s,p)(s,p)-harmonic functions, i.e. local weak solutions to the fractional pp-Laplace equation of order s(0,1)s\in (0,1) in the case p(1,2]p\in (1,2]. It is shown that (s,p)(s,p)-harmonic functions are weakly differentiable and that the weak gradient is locally integrable to any power q1q\geq 1. As a result, (s,p)(s,p)-harmonic functions are H\"older continuous to arbitrary H\"older exponent in (0,1)(0,1). In addition, the weak gradient of (s,p)(s,p)-harmonic functions has certain fractional differentiability. All estimates are stable when ss reaches 11, and the known regularity properties of pp-harmonic functions are formally recovered, in particular the local W2,2W^{2,2}-estimate.

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@article{arxiv.2409.02012,
  title  = {Gradient regularity for $(s,p)$-harmonic functions},
  author = {Verena Bögelein and Frank Duzaar and Naian Liao and Giovanni Molica Bisci and Raffaella Servadei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02012},
  year   = {2024}
}
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