Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rossi, Julio D., Ruiz-Cases, Jorge
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11621
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • In this paper we introduce two new fractional versions of the Laplacian. The first one is based on the classical formula that writes the usual Laplacian as the sum of the eigenvalues of the Hessian. The second one comes from looking at the classical fractional Laplacian as the mean value (in the sphere) of the 1-dimensional fractional Laplacians in lines with directions in the sphere. To obtain this second new fractional operator we just replace the mean value by the mid-range of 1-dimensional fractional Laplacians with directions in the sphere. For these two new fractional operators we prove a comparison principle for viscosity sub and supersolutions and then we obtain existence and uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem. We also show that solutions are $C^γ$ smooth up to the boundary when the exterior datum is also Hölder continuous. Finally, we prove that for the first operator we recover the classical Laplacian in the limit as $s\nearrow 1$.