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We address L\'{e}vy-stable stochastic processes in bounded domains, with a focus on a discrimination between inequivalent proposals for what a boundary data-respecting fractional Laplacian (and thence the induced random process) should…
In this work, we propose novel discretizations of the spectral fractional Laplacian on bounded domains based on the integral formulation of the operator via the heat-semigroup formalism. Specifically, we combine suitable quadrature formulas…
We connect boundary conditions for one-sided pseudo-differential operators with the generators of modified one-sided L\'evy processes. On one hand this allows modellers to use appropriate boundary conditions with confidence when restricting…
We develop a novel a posteriori error estimator for the $L^2$ error committed by the finite element discretization of the solution of the fractional Laplacian. Our a posteriori error estimator takes advantage of the semi-discretization…
The fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ is the prototypical non-local elliptic operator. While analytical theory has been advanced and understood for some time, there remain many open problems in the numerical analysis of the…
Given $\alpha > -1$, consider the second order differential operator in $(0,\infty)$, $$L_\alpha f \equiv (x^2 \frac{d^2}{dx^2} + (2\alpha+3)x \frac{d}{dx} + x^2 + (\alpha+1)^2)(f), $$ which appears in the theory of Bessel functions. The…
This is the first of two articles dealing with the equation $(-\Delta)^{s} v= f(v)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, with $s\in (0,1)$, where $(-\Delta)^{s}$ stands for the fractional Laplacian ---the infinitesimal generator of a L\'evy process. This…
In this paper we study pseudo-processes related to odd-order heat-type equations composed with L\'evy stable subordinators. The aim of the article is twofold. We first show that the pseudo-density of the subordinated pseudo-process can be…
We design and analyze solution techniques for a linear-quadratic optimal control problem involving the integral fractional Laplacian. We derive existence and uniqueness results, first order optimality conditions, and regularity estimates…
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In this article, we study a model problem featuring a L\'evy process in a domain with semi-transparent boundary by considering the following perturbed fractional Laplacian operator \[\mathscr{L}_{b,q} := (-\Delta)^t +…
In this article, we introduce Mittag-Leffler L\'evy process and provide two alternative representations of this process. First, in terms of Laplace transform of the marginal densities and next as a subordinated stochastic process. Both…
We study a class of stochastic differential equations driven by a possibly tempered L{\'e}vy process, under mild conditions on the coefficients. We prove the well-posedness of the associated martingale problem as well as the existence of…
In this paper, we develop a numerical method for the L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation with the fractional diffusive scaling. There are two main challenges. One comes from a two-fold nonlocality, that is, the need to apply the fractional…
In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for backward stochastic partial differential equations (BSPDEs) involving fractional Laplacian operator. Firstly, by employing the martingale representation theorem and the fractional heat kernel,…
The crossover among two or more types of diffusive processes represents a vibrant theme in nonequilibrium statistical physics. In this work we propose two models to generate crossovers among different L\'evy processes: in the first model we…
We make the split of the integral fractional Laplacian as $(-\Delta)^s u=(-\Delta)(-\Delta)^{s-1}u$, where $s\in(0,\frac{1}{2})\cup(\frac{1}{2},1)$. Based on this splitting, we respectively discretize the one- and two-dimensional integral…
The Laplacian $\Delta$ is the infinitesimal generator of isotropic Brownian motion, being the limit process of normal diffusion, while the fractional Laplacian $\Delta^{\beta/2}$ serves as the infinitesimal generator of the limit process of…
We consider the isogeometric analysis for fractional PDEs involving the fractional Laplacian in two dimensions. An isogeometric collocation method is developed to discretize the fractional Laplacian and applied to the fractional Poisson…
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