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We relate the (anisotropic) variable coefficient local and nonlocal Calder\'on problems by means of the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension. In particular, we prove that (partial) Dirichlet-to-Neumann data for the fractional Calder\'on problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Giovanni Covi , Tuhin Ghosh , Angkana Rüland , Gunther Uhlmann

We prove interior Harnack's inequalities for solutions of fractional nonlocal equations. Our examples include fractional powers of divergence form elliptic operators with potentials, operators arising in classical orthogonal expansions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-20 P. R. Stinga , Chao Zhang

In this note we consider the nonlinear heat equation associated to the fractional Hermite operator $H^\beta =(-\Delta+|x|^2)^\beta$, $0<\beta\leq 1$. We show the local solvability of the related Cauchy problem in the framework of modulation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Elena Cordero

In this paper we study an extension problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type and use the solution to prove Hardy-type inequalities for fractional powers of the Laplace-Beltrami operator.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Mithun Bhowmik , Sanjoy Pusti

We define the fractional powers $L^s=(-a^{ij}(x)\partial_{ij})^s$, $0 < s < 1$, of nondivergence form elliptic operators $L=-a^{ij}(x)\partial_{ij}$ in bounded domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, under minimal regularity assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-16 P. R. Stinga , M. Vaughan

Problems of the numerical solution of the Cauchy problem for a first-order differential-operator equation are discussed. A fundamental feature of the problem under study is that the equation includes a fractional power of the self-adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Petr N. Vabishchevich

In this paper, we study an extension problem for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator $L=-\Delta+2x\cdot\nabla +n$ and we obtain various characterisations of the solution of the same. We use a particular solution of that extension problem to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Pritam Ganguly , Ramesh Manna , Sundaram Thangavelu

We study two classes of extension problems, and their interconnections: (i) Extension of positive definite (p.d.) continuous functions defined on subsets in locally compact groups $G$; (ii) In case of Lie groups, representations of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Palle Jorgensen , Steen Pedersen , Feng Tian

We establish a Liouville-type theorem for a subcritical nonlinear problem, involving a fractional power of the sub-Laplacian in the Heisenberg group. To prove our result we will use the local realization of fractional CR covariant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Eleonora Cinti , Jinggang Tan

We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Samuil D. Eidelman , Anatoly N. Kochubei

The paper is concerned with a posteriori estimates for approximations of boundary value problems generated by the spectral fractional Laplace operator. The derivation is based upon the Stinga--Torrea extension, which generalizes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Alexander Nazarov , Sergey Repin

We build a systematic calculational method for the covariant expansion of the two-point heat kernel $\hat K(\tau|x,x')$ for generic minimal and non-minimal differential operators of any order. This is the expansion in powers of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-31 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Wladyslaw Wachowski

We study the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}$ on the $n$-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^n$, $n\geq1$. First, we present a general extension problem that describes \textit{any} fractional power $L^\gamma$, $\gamma>0$, where $L$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-29 L. Roncal , P. R. Stinga

We discuss representation of certain functions of the Laplace operator $\Delta$ as Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps for appropriate elliptic operators in half-space. A classical result identifies $(-\Delta)^{1/2}$, the square root of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-11 Mateusz Kwaśnicki , Jacek Mucha

Starting from the pseudo-differential decomposition $\mathbf{D}=(-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}\mathcal{H}$ of the Dirac operator $\displaystyle \mathbf{D}=\sum_{j=1}^n\mathbf{e}_j\partial_{x_j}$ in terms of the fractional operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Nelson Faustino

The paper demonstrates the basic properties of the local fractional variation operators (termed fractal variation operators). The action of the operators is demonstrated for local characterization of Holderian functions. In particular, it…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Dimiter Prodanov

In this paper, we consider a rather general linear evolution equation of fractional type, namely a diffusion type problem in which the diffusion operator is the $s$th power of a positive definite operator having a discrete spectrum in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Jürgen Sprekels , Enrico Valdinoci

We design and analyze several Finite Element Methods (FEMs) applied to the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension that localizes the fractional powers of symmetric, coercive, linear elliptic operators in bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Lehel Banjai , Jens M. Melenk , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado , Christoph Schwab

In this paper we show how the spectral theory based on the notion of $S$-spectrum allows us to study new classes of fractional diffusion and of fractional evolution processes. We prove new results on the quaternionic version of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Fabrizio Colombo , Jonathan Gantner

We investigate the existence, uniqueness, and $L^1$-contractivity of weak solutions to a porous medium equation with fractional diffusion on an evolving hypersurface. To settle the existence, we reformulate the equation as a local problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Amal Alphonse , Charles M. Elliott