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Regularity and rigidity theorems for a class of anisotropic nonlocal operators

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-22 v3

Abstract

We consider here operators which are sum of (possibly) fractional derivatives, with (possibly different) order. The main constructive assumption is that the operator is of order~22 in one variable. By constructing an explicit barrier, we prove a Lipschitz estimate which controls the oscillation of the solutions in such direction with respect to the oscillation of the nonlinearity in the same direction. As a consequence, we obtain a rigidity result that, roughly speaking, states that if the nonlinearity is independent of a coordinate direction, then so is any global solution (provided that the solution does not grow too much at infinity). A Liouville type result then follows as a byproduct.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06509,
  title  = {Regularity and rigidity theorems for a class of anisotropic nonlocal operators},
  author = {Alberto Farina and Enrico Valdinoci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06509},
  year   = {2016}
}