Fractional Laplacians, perimeters and heat semigroups in Carnot groups

Fausto Ferrari; Michele Miranda Jr; Diego Pallara; Andrea Pinamonti; Yannick Sire

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2018026

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2018, Volume 11, Issue 3: 477-491. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2018026

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Fractional Laplacians, perimeters and heat semigroups in Carnot groups

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Dip. di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta San Donato, 5, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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Dip. di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Ferrara, via Machiavelli 30, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Dip. di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi", Università del Salento, P.O.B. 193, and INFN, 73100 Lecce, Italy
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Dip. di Matematica, Università di Trento, via Sommarive, 14, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy
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Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, 404 Krieger Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

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Received: May 2017

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Published online: October 2017

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We define and study the fractional Laplacian and the fractional perimeter of a set in Carnot groups and we compare the perimeter with the asymptotic behaviour of the fractional heat semigroup.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35C15, 35J15; Secondary: 35K08.

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