Related papers: On the shape of the first fractional eigenfunction

The operator square root of the Laplacian $(-\lap)^{1/2}$ can be obtained from the harmonic extension problem to the upper half space as the operator that maps the Dirichlet boundary condition to the Neumann condition. In this paper we…

We study the regularity of segregated profiles arising from competition - diffusion models, where the diffusion process is of nonlocal type and is driven by the fractional Laplacian of power $s \in (0,1)$. Among others, our results apply to…

We prove a representation formula for superharmonic functions on the half-space $\mathbb{R}^N_+ := \mathbb{R}^{N-1}\times]0,+\infty[$. As a consequence, we derive some comparison principles and various positivity results.

This paper presents a new formulation of the fractional Laplacian operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in $n$-dimensional space ($n \ge 1$). The proposed formulation expresses $(-\Delta)^s$ as a composition of the classical Laplace differential operator…

In this paper, we assume that $q>0$, $p>1$ and $s\in(0,1)$ , and consider the following nonlinear fractional p-Laplacian equations on finite graphs: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} \partial_t u^q(x,t)+(-\Delta)_p^su=0,\\[15pt]…

For $\lambda \in (1/2, 1)$ and $\alpha$, we consider sets of numbers $x$ such that for infinitely many $n$, $x$ is $2^{-\alpha n}$-close to some $\sum_{i=1}^n \omega_i \lambda^i$, where $\omega_i \in \{0,1\}$. These sets are in Falconer's…

Non-Abelian fractional supersymmetry algebra in two dimensions is introduced utilizing $U_q(sl(2,\Rcc))$ at roots of unity. Its representations and the matrix elements are obtained. The dual of it is constructed and the corepresentations…

We prove a uniform boundary Harnack inequality for nonnegative harmonic functions of the fractional Laplacian on arbitrary open set $D$. This yields a unique representation of such functions as integrals against measures on $D^c\cup…

Let $(-\Delta_{p})^{s}$, with $0<s<1<p<\infty$, be the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator. We prove that the span of $p$-harmonic functions in $B_{1}$ is dense in $C^{k}(\bar{B}_{1})$.

We consider two eigenvalue problems for Laplacian on some specific doubly connected domain. In particular, we study the following two eigenvalue problems. Let $B_1$ be an open ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $B_0$ be a ball contained in $B_1$.…

We prove that for an embedded minimal surface $\Sigma$ in $S^3$, the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator $\lambda_1$ satisfies $\lambda_1\geq 1+\epsilon_g$, where $\epsilon_g>0$ is a constant depending only on the genus $g$ of…

We prove higher H\"older regularity for solutions of equations involving the fractional $p-$Laplacian of order $s$, when $p\ge 2$ and $0<s<1$. In particular, we provide an explicit H\"older exponent for solutions of the non-homogeneous…

Given $(M,g)$ a smooth compact Riemannian manifold without boundary of dimension $n\geq 3$, we consider the first conformal eigenvalue which is by definition the supremum of the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian among all metrics conformal…

The eigenfunctions of the Laplacian are a natural basis of functions for many tasks in computational mathematics. On the circle and sphere, the eigenfunctions are given by complex periodic exponentials and spherical harmonics, respectively,…

Let $u$ be the first Dirichlet Laplacian eigenfunction of a bounded convex set $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We strengthen the classical result by Brascamp-Lieb which asserts that $u$ is logconcave in $\Omega$: we prove that, if $u$ is…

We compute numerically eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in a three-dimensional hyperbolic space. Applying the results to cosmology, we demonstrate that the methods learned in quantum chaos can be used in other fields of…

In this paper we define the fractional order Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, and prove its convergence to the classical Orlicz-Sobolev spaces when the fractional parameter $s\uparrow 1$ in the spirit of the celebrated result of…

In this paper we study an optimal shape design problem for the first eigenvalue of the fractional $p-$laplacian with mixed boundary conditions. The optimization variable is the set where the Dirichlet condition is imposed (that is…

We prove that the first positive eigenvalue, normalized by the volume, of the sub-Laplacian associated with a strictly pseudoconvex pseudo-Hermitian structure $\\theta$ on the CR sphere S 2n+1 $\subset$ C n+1 , achieves its maximum when…

We establish the optimal regularity of solutions to the Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian, $(-\Delta)^s u=h$ in $\Omega$, with the external condition $\mathcal N^s u=0$ in $\Omega^c$. For this, a key point is to establish a 1D…