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We investigate discrete fractional Laplacians defined on the half-lattice in several dimensions, allowing possibly different fractional orders along each coordinate direction. By expressing the half-lattice operator as a boundary…
In this paper, we are concerned with the following equation involving higher-order fractional Lapalacian \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &(-\Delta)^{p+{\frac{\alpha}{2}}}u(x)=u_+^\gamma~~ \mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^n,\\…
We develop strong and weak maximum principles for boundary-degenerate elliptic and parabolic linear second-order partial differential operators, $Au := -\mathrm{tr}(aD^2u)-<b, Du> + cu$, with partial Dirichlet boundary conditions. The…
In dimensions $n\ge 2$ we obtain $L^{p_1}(\mathbb R^n) \times\dots\times L^{p_m}(\mathbb R^n)$ to $L^p(\mathbb R^n)$ boundedness for the multilinear spherical maximal function in the largest possible open set of indices and we provide…
We study the effect of lower order perturbations in the existence of positive solutions to the following critical elliptic problem involving the fractional Laplacian: (-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u=\lambda u^q+u^{\frac{N+\alpha}{N-\alpha}}, \quad…
We consider a Laplacian on the one-sided full shift space over a finite symbol set, which is constructed as a renormalized limit of finite difference operators. We propose a weak definition of this Laplacian, analogous to the one in…
The first-order approach to boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations in divergence form with transversally independent complex coefficients in the upper half-space rewrites the equation algebraically as a first-order…
A classical counterexample due to E. De Giorgi, shows that the weak maximum principle does not remain true for general linear elliptic differential systems. After that, there are some efforts to establish the weak maximum principle for…
We study the following nonlinear and nonlocal elliptic equation in~$\R^n$ $$ (-\Delta)^s u = \epsilon\,h\,u^q + u^p \ {\mbox{ in }}\R^n, $$ where~$s\in(0,1)$, $n>2s$, $\epsilon>0$ is a small parameter, $p=\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}$, $q\in(0,1)$,…
We consider in this paper elliptic equations which are perturbations of Laplace's equation by a compactly supported potential. We show that in dimension greater than three for a wide class of potentials all the solutions are globally…
We introduce a definition of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{s(\cdot)}$ with spatially variable order $s:\Omega\to [0,1]$ and study the solvability of the associated Poisson problem on a bounded domain $\Omega$. The initial motivation…
We study vector valued solutions to non-linear elliptic partial differential equations with $p$-growth. Existence of a solution is shown in case the right hand side is the divergence of a function which is only $q$ integrable, where $q$ is…
We consider maximum principles and related estimates for linear second order elliptic partial differential operators in n-dimensional Euclidean space, which improve previous results, with H-J Kuo, through sharp Lp dependence on the drift…
The aim of this paper is to study a class of nonlocal fractional Laplacian equations depending on two real parameters. More precisely, by using an appropriate analytical context on fractional Sobolev spaces due to Servadei and Valdinoci, we…
In this work, we establish the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for nonlocal elliptic problems driven by the fractional $\Phi$-Laplacian operator, in the presence of a sign-indefinite nonlinearity. More specifically, we…
Any positive power of the Laplacian is related via its Fourier symbol to a hypersingular integral with finite differences. We show how this yields a pointwise evaluation which is more flexible than other notions used so far in the…
This paper continues the program that was initiated in \cite{Dav18} and continued in \cite{DSVG24}, where a high-dimensional limiting technique was developed and used to prove certain parabolic theorems from their elliptic counterparts. The…
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We consider the fractional Laplacian on a domain and investigate the asymptotic behavior of its eigenvalues. Extending methods from semi-classical analysis we are able to prove a two-term formula for the sum of eigenvalues with the leading…