Definition of fractional Laplacian for functions with polynomial growth

  • Serena Dipierro

    University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
  • Ovidiu Savin

    Columbia University, New York, USA
  • Enrico Valdinoci

    University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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Abstract

We introduce a notion of fractional Laplacian for functions which grow more than linearly at infinity. In such case, the operator is not defined in the classical sense: nevertheless, we can give an ad-hoc definition, which (in addition to the various results that we prove here) can also be useful for applications in various fields, such as blowup and free boundary problems.

In this setting, when the solution has a polynomial growth at infinity, the right hand side of the equation is not just a function, but an equivalence class of functions modulo polynomials of a fixed order.

We also give a sharp version of the Schauder estimates in this framework, in which the full smooth H¨older norm of the solution is controlled in terms of the seminorm of the forcing term.

Though the method presented is very general and potentially works for general nonlocal operators, for clarity and concreteness we focus here on the case of the fractional Laplacian.

Cite this article

Serena Dipierro, Ovidiu Savin, Enrico Valdinoci, Definition of fractional Laplacian for functions with polynomial growth. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 35 (2019), no. 4, pp. 1079–1122

DOI 10.4171/RMI/1079