Basic estimates for solutions of a class of nonlocalelliptic and parabolic equations

Tommaso  Leonori; Ireneo  Peral; Ana  Primo; Fernando  Soria

doi:10.3934/dcds.2015.35.6031

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2015, Volume 35, Issue 12: 6031-6068. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.6031

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Basic estimates for solutions of a class of nonlocal elliptic and parabolic equations

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Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva S/N, 18071 GRANADA
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Department of Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid

Received: February 2014

Revised: August 2014

Published: December 2015

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In this work we consider the problems $$ \left\{\begin{array}{rcll} \mathcal{L \,} u&=&f &\hbox{ in } \Omega,\\ u&=&0 &\hbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega, \end{array} \right. $$ and $$ \left\{\begin{array}{rcll} u_t +\mathcal{L \,} u&=&f &\hbox{ in } Q_{T}\equiv\Omega\times (0, T),\\ u (x,t) &=&0 &\hbox{ in } \big(\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega\big) \times (0, T),\\ u(x,0)&=&0 &\hbox{ in } \Omega, \end{array} \right. $$ where $\mathcal{L \,}$ is a nonlocal differential operator and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, with Lipschitz boundary.
The main goal of this work is to study existence, uniqueness and summability of the solution $u$ with respect to the summability of the datum $f$. In the process we establish an $L^p$-theory, for $p \geq 1$, associated to these problems and we prove some useful inequalities for the applications.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 45K05, 47G20, 35R09, 35D30, 35D35.

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