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Higher-order boundary regularity estimates for nonlocal parabolic equations

Analysis of PDEs 2018-02-27 v3

Abstract

We establish sharp higher-order H\"older regularity estimates up to the boundary for solutions to equations of the form tuLu=f(t,x)\partial_t u-Lu=f(t,x) in I×ΩI\times\Omega where IRI\subset\mathbb{R}, ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n and ff is H\"older continuous. The nonlocal operators LL considered are those arising in stochastic processes with jumps such as the fractional Laplacian (Δ)s(-\Delta)^s, s(0,1)s\in(0,1). Our main result establishes that, if ff is CγC^\gamma is space and Cγ/2sC^{\gamma/2s} in time, and Ω\Omega is a C2,γC^{2,\gamma} domain, then u/dsu/d^s is Cs+γC^{s+\gamma} up to the boundary in space and uu is C1+γ/2sC^{1+\gamma/2s} up the boundary in time, where dd is the distance to Ω\partial\Omega. This is the first higher order boundary regularity estimate for nonlocal parabolic equations, and is new even for the fractional Laplacian in CC^\infty domains.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02075,
  title  = {Higher-order boundary regularity estimates for nonlocal parabolic equations},
  author = {Xavier Ros-Oton and Hernan Vivas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02075},
  year   = {2018}
}
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