A gentle invitation to the fractional world

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Hauptverfasser: Abatangelo, Nicola, Dipierro, Serena, Valdinoci, Enrico
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author Abatangelo, Nicola
Dipierro, Serena
Valdinoci, Enrico
author_facet Abatangelo, Nicola
Dipierro, Serena
Valdinoci, Enrico
contents This book is intended as a self-contained introduction to selected topics in the fractional world, focusing particularly on aspects that arise in the study of equations driven by the fractional Laplacian. The scope of this work is not intended to be exhaustive or all-encompassing. We have chosen topics that we believe will appeal to readers embarking on their journey into fractional analysis. It requires only fundamental calculus and a basic understanding of measure theory. In Chapter 1, we introduce the primary object of study, the fractional Laplacian. This operator appears in diverse contexts, prompting multiple definitions and viewpoints, many of which we explore, along with some key identities. A notable distinction between local and nonlocal analysis is that in the latter, explicit calculations are often impractical or impossible. There are anyway some fortunate exceptions which are gathered in Chapter 2, providing useful and instructive examples. Chapter 3 presents an introduction to the important aspect of Liouville-type results. A large portion of this book is devoted to the regularity theory of solutions in Lebesgue spaces. Chapter 4 examines global solutions using Riesz and Bessel potential analysis, capturing the impact of both low and high frequencies on smoothness, decay, and oscillations. These spaces are also flexible enough to provide, as a byproduct, a solid regularity theory in the more commonly used fractional Sobolev spaces. In Chapter 5 we derive the corresponding interior regularity theory for solutions within a bounded domain using appropriate cutoffs and localization techniques. Additionally, technical appendices include auxiliary results used in key proofs.
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Abatangelo, Nicola
Dipierro, Serena
Valdinoci, Enrico
Analysis of PDEs
This book is intended as a self-contained introduction to selected topics in the fractional world, focusing particularly on aspects that arise in the study of equations driven by the fractional Laplacian. The scope of this work is not intended to be exhaustive or all-encompassing. We have chosen topics that we believe will appeal to readers embarking on their journey into fractional analysis. It requires only fundamental calculus and a basic understanding of measure theory. In Chapter 1, we introduce the primary object of study, the fractional Laplacian. This operator appears in diverse contexts, prompting multiple definitions and viewpoints, many of which we explore, along with some key identities. A notable distinction between local and nonlocal analysis is that in the latter, explicit calculations are often impractical or impossible. There are anyway some fortunate exceptions which are gathered in Chapter 2, providing useful and instructive examples. Chapter 3 presents an introduction to the important aspect of Liouville-type results. A large portion of this book is devoted to the regularity theory of solutions in Lebesgue spaces. Chapter 4 examines global solutions using Riesz and Bessel potential analysis, capturing the impact of both low and high frequencies on smoothness, decay, and oscillations. These spaces are also flexible enough to provide, as a byproduct, a solid regularity theory in the more commonly used fractional Sobolev spaces. In Chapter 5 we derive the corresponding interior regularity theory for solutions within a bounded domain using appropriate cutoffs and localization techniques. Additionally, technical appendices include auxiliary results used in key proofs.
title A gentle invitation to the fractional world
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18238