# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2013, 33(6): 2319-2347. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2319

## Schauder estimates for a class of non-local elliptic equations

 1 Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 182 George Street, Providence, RI 02912 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Kyung Hee University, 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, South Korea

Received  January 2012 Revised  May 2012 Published  December 2012

We prove Schauder estimates for a class of non-local elliptic operators with kernel $K(y)=a(y)/|y|^{d+\sigma}$ and either Dini or Hölder continuous data. Here $0 < \sigma < 2$ is a constant and $a$ is a bounded measurable function, which is not necessarily to be homogeneous, regular, or symmetric. As an application, we prove that the operators give isomorphisms between the Lipschitz--Zygmund spaces $\Lambda^{\alpha+\sigma}$ and $\Lambda^\alpha$ for any $\alpha>0$. Several local estimates and an extension to operators with kernels $K(x,y)$ are also discussed.
Citation: Hongjie Dong, Doyoon Kim. Schauder estimates for a class of non-local elliptic equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (6) : 2319-2347. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2319
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