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We study fractional differential equations of Riemann-Liouville and Caputo type in Hilbert spaces. Using exponentially weighted spaces of functions defined on $\mathbb{R}$, we define fractional operators by means of a functional calculus…
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…
The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…
We present a quasi-linearly scaling, first order polynomial finite element method for the solution of the magnetostatic open boundary problem by splitting the magnetic scalar potential. The potential is determined by solving a Dirichlet…
In this paper, we consider the following non-linear equations in unbounded domains $\Omega$ with exterior Dirichlet condition: \begin{equation*}\begin{cases} (-\Delta)_p^s u(x)=f(u(x)), & x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)>0, &x\in\Omega,\\ u(x)\leq0,…
In [1], we inaugurated a new area of optimal control (OC) theory that we called "periodic fractional OC theory," which was developed to find optimal ways to periodically control a fractional dynamic system. The typical mathematical…
We obtain necessary optimality conditions for variational problems with a Lagrangian depending on a Caputo fractional derivative, a fractional and an indefinite integral. Main results give fractional Euler-Lagrange type equations and…
We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions $u(x)\ge 0$ to the semilinear diffusion equation $\mathcal{L} u= f(u)$, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N$ with appropriate homogeneous Dirichlet or outer…
Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…
In this paper, we study the spectral fractional Laplacian with inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary data. Our contributions are twofold: first we introduce a Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for this operator and analyze an associated inverse problem;…
We establish pointwise formulas for the shape derivative of solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with the fractional Laplacian. Specifically, we consider the equation $(-\Delta)^s u = h$ in $\Omega$ and $u=0$ in $\Omega^c$, where…
We review some fractional free boundary problems that were recently considered for modeling anomalous phase-transitions. All problems are of Stefan type and involve fractional derivatives in time according to Caputo's definition. We survey…
We consider the nonlinear boundary value problem consisting of the equation \tag{1} -u" = f(u) + h, \quad \text{a.e. on $(-1,1)$,} where $h \in L^1(-1,1)$, together with the multi-point, Dirichlet-type boundary conditions \tag{2} u(\pm 1) =…
The purpose of this work is the study of solution techniques for problems involving fractional powers of symmetric coercive elliptic operators in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. These operators can be realized as the…
We consider the divergent fractional Laplace operator presented in [Dipierro-Savin-Valdinoci, Rev. Mat. Iberoam.] and we prove three types of results. Firstly, we show that any given function can be locally shadowed by a solution of a…
An arbitrary order finite difference method for curved boundary domains with Cartesian grid is proposed. The technique handles in a universal manner Dirichlet, Neumann or Robin condition. We introduce the Reconstruction Off-site Data (ROD)…
In this paper we examine the existence of multiple solutions of parametric fractional equations involving the square root of the Laplacian $A_{1/2}$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\geq 2$) and with Dirichlet…
The solution of the sine-Gordon equation in the quarter plane can be expressed in terms of the solution of a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem whose definition involves four spectral functions $a,b,A,B$. The functions $a(k)$ and $b(k)$ are…
In this paper we study the existence of solutions for nonlinear boundary value problems ({\phi}(u' ))' = f(t,u,u'), l(u,u')=0 where l(u,u') =0 denotes the Dirichlet or mixed conditions on [0, T], {\phi} is a bounded, singular or classic…
In this article, we develop a new method to approximate numerically the fractional Laplacian of functions defined on $\mathbb R$, as well as some more general singular integrals. After mapping $\mathbb R$ into a finite interval, we…