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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…

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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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Lukas Exl , Thomas Schrefl

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-17 Zhao Liu , Wenxiong Chen

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Kareem T. Elgindy

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Ricardo Almeida , Shakoor Pooseh , Delfim F. M. Torres

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Matteo Bonforte , Alessio Figalli , Juan Luis Vazquez

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Channa Hatharasinghe , Run Yan Teh , Jesse van Rhijn , Peter D. Drummond , Margaret D. Reid

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;…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Ravi Shankar Jaiswal , Pu-Zhao Kow , Suman Kumar Sahoo

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Sidy M. Djitte , Franck Sueur

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Andrea N. Ceretani

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) =…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Francois Genoud , Bryan P. Rynne

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Serena Dipierro , Ovidiu Savin , Enrico Valdinoci

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)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Stéphane Clain , Diogo Lopes , Rui Pereira

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Dušan D. Repovš , Luca Vilasi

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Lin Huang , Jonatan Lenells

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…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Dionicio Pastor Dallos Santos

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Jorge Cayama , Carlota M. Cuesta , Francisco de la Hoz , Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera