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The boundary Harnack principle for nonlocal elliptic operators in non-divergence form

Analysis of PDEs 2016-10-19 v1

Abstract

We prove a boundary Harnack inequality for nonlocal elliptic operators LL in non-divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients. Namely, our main result establishes that if Lu1=Lu2=0Lu_1=Lu_2=0 in ΩB1\Omega\cap B_1, u1=u2=0u_1=u_2=0 in B1ΩB_1\setminus\Omega, and u1,u20u_1,u_2\geq0 in Rn\mathbb R^n, then u1u_1 and u2u_2 are comparable in B1/2B_{1/2}. The result applies to arbitrary open sets Ω\Omega. When Ω\Omega is Lipschitz, we show that the quotient u1/u2u_1/u_2 is H\"older continuous up to the boundary in B1/2B_{1/2}.

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@article{arxiv.1610.05666,
  title  = {The boundary Harnack principle for nonlocal elliptic operators in non-divergence form},
  author = {Xavier Ros-Oton and Joaquim Serra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05666},
  year   = {2016}
}