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Regional fractional Laplacians: Boundary regularity

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-23 v3

Abstract

We study boundary regularity for solutions to a class of equations involving the so called regional fractional Lapacians (Δ)Ωs(-\Delta)^s_\Omega , with ΩRN\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N. Recall that the regional fractional Laplacians are generated by symmetric stable processes which are not allowed to jump outside Ω\Omega. We consider weak solutions to the equation (Δ)Ωsw(x)=p.v.Ωw(x)w(y)xyN+2sdy=f(x)(-\Delta)^s_\Omega w(x)=p.v.\int_{\Omega}\frac{w(x)-w(y)}{|x-y|^{N+2s}}\, dy=f(x), for s(0,1)s\in (0,1), subject to zero Neumann or Dirichlet boundary conditions. The boundary conditions are defined by considering ww as well as the test functions in the fractional Sobolev spaces Hs(Ω)H^s(\Omega) or H0s(Ω)H^s_0(\Omega) respectively. While the interior regularity is well understood for these problems, little is known in the boundary regularity, mainly for the Neumann problem. Under optimal regularity assumptions on Ω\Omega and provided fLp(Ω)f\in L^p(\Omega), we show that wC2sN/p(Ω)w\in C^{2s-N/p}(\overline \Omega) in the case of zero Neumann boundary conditions. As a consequence for 2sN/p>12s-N/p>1, wC1,2sNp1(Ω)w\in C^{1,2s-\frac{N}{p}-1}(\overline{\Omega}). As what concerned the Dirichlet problem, we obtain w/δ2s1C1N/p(Ω){w}/{\delta^{2s-1}}\in C^{1-N/p}(\overline\Omega), provided p>Np>N and s(1/2,1)s\in (1/2,1), where δ(x)=dist(x,Ω)\delta(x)=\textrm{dist}(x,\partial\Omega). To prove these results, we first classify all solutions having a certain growth at infinity when Ω\Omega is a half-space and the right hand side is zero. We then carry over a fine blow up and some compactness arguments to get the results.

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@article{arxiv.2007.04808,
  title  = {Regional fractional Laplacians: Boundary regularity},
  author = {Mouhamed Moustapha Fall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.04808},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor changes has been done. To appear in the "Journal of Differential Equations"

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