The Pohozaev identity for the Spectral Fractional Laplacian

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Hauptverfasser: Barrios-Cubas, Itahisa, Bonforte, Matteo, González, María del Mar, Torres-Latorre, Clara
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author Barrios-Cubas, Itahisa
Bonforte, Matteo
González, María del Mar
Torres-Latorre, Clara
author_facet Barrios-Cubas, Itahisa
Bonforte, Matteo
González, María del Mar
Torres-Latorre, Clara
contents In this paper, we prove a Pohozaev identity for the Spectral Fractional Laplacian (SFL). This identity allows us to establish non-existence results for the semilinear Dirichlet problem $(-Δ|_Ω)^su = f(u)$ in star-shaped domains. The first such identity for non-local operators was established by Ros-Oton and Serra in 2014 for the Restricted Fractional Laplacian (RFL). However, the SFL differs fundamentally from the RFL, and the integration by parts strategy of Ros-Oton and Serra cannot be applied. Instead, we develop a novel spectral approach that exploits the underlying quadratic structure. Our main result expresses the identity as a Schur product of the classical Pohozaev quadratic form and a transition matrix that depends on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the fractional exponent.
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spellingShingle The Pohozaev identity for the Spectral Fractional Laplacian
Barrios-Cubas, Itahisa
Bonforte, Matteo
González, María del Mar
Torres-Latorre, Clara
Analysis of PDEs
35J61, 35R11
In this paper, we prove a Pohozaev identity for the Spectral Fractional Laplacian (SFL). This identity allows us to establish non-existence results for the semilinear Dirichlet problem $(-Δ|_Ω)^su = f(u)$ in star-shaped domains. The first such identity for non-local operators was established by Ros-Oton and Serra in 2014 for the Restricted Fractional Laplacian (RFL). However, the SFL differs fundamentally from the RFL, and the integration by parts strategy of Ros-Oton and Serra cannot be applied. Instead, we develop a novel spectral approach that exploits the underlying quadratic structure. Our main result expresses the identity as a Schur product of the classical Pohozaev quadratic form and a transition matrix that depends on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the fractional exponent.
title The Pohozaev identity for the Spectral Fractional Laplacian
topic Analysis of PDEs
35J61, 35R11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16185