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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Oscar P. Bruno , Sabhrant Sachan

In this paper we deduce a formula for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$ on radially symmetric functions useful for some applications. We give a criterion of subharmonicity associated with $(-\Delta)^{s}$, and apply it to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Fausto Ferrari , Igor E. Verbitsky

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-21 B. Barrios , E. Colorado , A. de Pablo , U. Sánchez

This work concerns with the existence of solutions for the following class of nonlocal elliptic problems \begin{equation*}\label{00} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} (-\Delta)^{s}u + u = |u|^{p-2}u\;\;\mbox{in $\Omega$},\\ u \geq 0 \quad \mbox{in}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Claudianor O. Alves , Giovanni Molica Bisci , Cesar E. Torres Ledesma

In this paper we consider the existence of solution for the following class of fractional elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{00} \left\{\begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^su + u &= Q(x) |u|^{p-1}u\;\;\mbox{in}\;\;\R^N \setminus \Omega\\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Claudianor O. Alves , Cesar E. Torres Ledesma

The aim of this paper is to prove multiplicity of solutions for nonlocal fractional equations modeled by $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u-\lambda u=f(x,u) & {\mbox{ in }} \Omega\\ u=0 & {\mbox{ in }} \mathbb{R}^n\setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Dimitri Mugnai , Raffaella Servadei

We prove the Lewy-Stampacchia inequalities for the two obstacles problem in abstract form for T-monotone operators. As a consequence for a general class of quasi-linear elliptic operators of Ladyzhenskaya-Uraltseva type, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-10 J. F. Rodrigues , R. Teymurazyan

In this work we study the following fractional critical problem $$ (P_{\lambda})=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u=\lambda u^{q} + u^{2^*_{s}-1}, \quad u{>}0 & \mbox{in} \Omega\\ u=0 & \mbox{in} \RR^n\setminus \Omega\,,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 B. Barrios , E. Colorado , R. Servadei , F. Soria

In this work we consider the Cauchy problem for the cubic Schr\"odinger equation posed on cylinder $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}$ with fractional derivatives $(-\partial_y^2)^{\alpha},\, \alpha >0$, in the periodic direction. The spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-26 A. J. Corcho , L. P. Mallqui

In this paper, we deal with the following elliptic type problem $$ \begin{cases} (-\Delta)_{q(.)}^{s(.)}u + \lambda Vu = \alpha \left\vert u\right\vert^{p(.)-2}u+\beta \left\vert u\right\vert^{k(.)-2}u & \text{ in }\Omega, \\[7pt] u =0 &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Abita Rahmoune , Umberto Biccari

We establish the $C^{1+\gamma}$-H\"older regularity of the regular free boundary in the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplace operator with drift in the subcritical regime. Our method of the proof consists in proving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Nicola Garofalo , Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop , Mariana Smit Vega Garcia

The present paper studies the non-local fractional analogue of the famous paper of Brezis and Nirenberg in [4]. Namely, we focus on the following model, $$\begin{align*}\left(\mathcal{P}\right) \begin{cases} \left(-\Delta\right)^s u-\lambda…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Debangana Mukherjee

We review the finite element approximation of the classical obstacle problem in energy and max-norms and derive error estimates for both the solution and the free boundary. On the basis of recent regularity results we present an optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otárola , Abner J. Salgado

We study the higher regularity of free boundaries in obstacle problems for integro-differential operators with drift, like $(-\Delta)^s +b\cdot\nabla$, in the subcritical regime $s>\frac{1}{2}$. Our main result states that once the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Teo Kukuljan

Nowadays a great attention has been focused on the discrete fractional Laplace operator as the natural counterpart of the continuous one. In this paper, we discretize the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$ for an arbitrary finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Mengjie Zhang , Yong Lin , Yunyan Yang

We prove a higher regularity result for the free boundary in the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian via a higher order boundary Harnack inequality.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Yash Jhaveri , Robin Neumayer

This is the first part of a series of two papers where we study perturbations of divergence form second order elliptic operators $-\mathop{\operatorname{div}} A \nabla$ by first and zero order terms, whose coefficients lie in critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Simon Bortz , Steve Hofmann , José Luis Luna Garcia , Svitlana Mayboroda , Bruno Poggi

We describe a highly efficient numerical scheme for finding two-sided bounds for the eigenvalues of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} in the unit ball D in R^d, with a Dirichlet condition in the complement of D. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Bartłomiej Dyda , Alexey Kuznetsov , Mateusz Kwaśnicki

We study the regularity of the solution to an obstacle problem for a class of integro-differential operators. The differential part is a second order elliptic operator, whereas the nonlocal part is given by the integral fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Andrea Bonito , Wenyu Lei , Abner J. Salgado

We prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of solutions to the stationary obstacle problem defined by the fractional Laplacian operator with drift, in the subcritical regime. We localize our problem by considering a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Arshak Petrosyan , Camelia A. Pop