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We study the Dancer-Fucik spectrum of the fractional p-Laplacian operator. We construct an unbounded sequence of decreasing curves in the spectrum using a suitable minimax scheme. For p=2, we present a very accurate local analysis. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Kanishka Perera , Marco Squassina , Yang Yang

Let $\Omega $ be an open, smooth, bounded subset of $ \Bbb R ^n$. In connection with the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta )^a$ ($a>0$), and more generally for a $2a$-order classical pseudodifferential operator ($\psi $do) $P$ with even…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Gerd Grubb

A differential operator of weight $\lambda$ is the algebraic abstraction of the difference quotient $d_\lambda(f)(x):=\big(f(x+\lambda)-f(x)\big)/\lambda$, including both the derivation as $\lambda$ approaches to $0$ and the difference…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Aiping Gan , Li Guo

The logarithmic Laplacian on the (whole) N-dimensional Euclidean space is defined as the first variation of the fractional Laplacian of order 2s at s=0 or, alternatively, as a singular Fourier integral operator with logarithmic symbol.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Huyuan Chen , Daniel Hauer , Tobias Weth

We introduce a generalized finite difference method for solving a large range of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in three dimensions. Methods are based on Cartesian grids, augmented by additional points carefully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

We review recent results on the finite-gap properties of difference operators with elliptic coefficients and give explicit characterization of spectral curves for difference analogues of the higher Lam\'e operators. This curve parametrizes…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Zabrodin

By means of variational methods we investigate existence, non-existence as well as regularity of weak solutions for a system of nonlocal equations involving the fractional laplacian operator and with nonlinearity reaching the critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Luiz Faria , Olimpio Miyagaki , Fabio Pereira , Marco Squassina , Chengxiang Zhang

We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Christian Glusa , Enrique Otarola

We propose a fast collocation method based on Krylov subspace iterative solver on general nonuniform grids for the fractional Laplacian problem, in which the fractional operator is presented in a singular integral formulation. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Meijie Kong , Hongfei Fu

This work presents a numerical study of the Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ with $s\in(0,1)$ using Finite Element methods with non-standard bases. Classical approaches based on piece-wise linear basis yield…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Félix del Teso , Stefano Fronzoni , David Gómez-Castro

We propose two asymptotic expansions of two interrelated integral-type averages, in the context of the fractional $\infty$-Laplacian $\Delta_\infty^s$ for $s\in (\frac{1}{2},1)$. This operator has been introduced and first studied in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Félix del Teso , Jørgen Endal , Marta Lewicka

Graph Laplacians computed from weighted adjacency matrices are widely used to identify geometric structure in data, and clusters in particular; their spectral properties play a central role in a number of unsupervised and semi-supervised…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini , Assad A. Oberai , Andrew M. Stuart

We discuss some basic properties of the eigenfunctions of a class of nonlocal operators whose model is the fractional p-Laplacian.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Giovanni Franzina , Giampiero Palatucci

It is shown how to define difference operators and equations on particular lattices $\{x_n\}$, $2n\in\mathbb{Z}$, such that the divided difference operator $(\mathcal{D}f)(x_{n+1/2})= (f(x_{n+1})-f(x_n))/(x_{n+1}-x_n)$ has the property that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alphonse P. Magnus

In this paper we consider a very singular elliptic equation that involves an anisotropic diffusion operator, including one-Laplacian, and is perturbed by a $p$-Laplacian-type diffusion operator with $1<p<\infty$. This equation seems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Shuntaro Tsubouchi

We develop all of the components needed to construct an adaptive finite element code that can be used to approximate fractional partial differential equations, on non-trivial domains in $d\geq 1$ dimensions. Our main approach consists of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

We prove maximum and comparison principles for fractional discrete derivatives in the integers. Regularity results when the space is a mesh of length $h$, and approximation theorems to the continuous fractional derivatives are shown. When…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Luciano Abadías , Marta de León-Contreras , José L. Torrea

The article is devoted to the solvability of a system of integro-differential equations in the case of the difference of the standard Laplacian and the bi-Laplacian in the diffusion terms. The proof of the existence of solutions is based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Vitali Vougalter , Vitaly Volpert

We discuss the existence theory of a nonlinear problem of nonlocal type subject to Neumann boundary conditions. Differently from the existing literature, the elliptic operator under consideration is obtained as a superposition of operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Serena Dipierro , Edoardo Proietti Lippi , Caterina Sportelli , Enrico Valdinoci

We consider a class of fully nonlinear nonlocal degenerate elliptic operators which are modeled on the fractional Laplacian and converge to the truncated Laplacians. We investigate the validity of (strong) maximum and minimum principles,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Delia Schiera