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March 2019, 39(3): 1237-1256. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019053

Fundamental solutions of a class of homogeneous integro-differential elliptic equations

Yi Cao ^1, , Jianhua Wu ^1,, and Lihe Wang ^2,3,

1.	College of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
2.	Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
3.	Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1419, USA

* Corresponding author: NSFC grant 11271236

Received April 2017 Revised February 2018 Published December 2018

Fund Project: The first author is supported by NSFC grant 11126201, 11671243

In this paper, we study a class of integro-differential elliptic operators $L_{σ}$ with kernel $k(y) = a(y)/|y|^{d+σ}$, where $d≥2, σ∈(0,2)$, and the positive function $a(y)$ is homogenous and bounded. By using a purely analytic method, we construct the fundamental solution $Φ$ of $L_{σ}$ if $a(y)$ satisfies a natural cancellation assumption and $|a(y)-1|$ is small. Furthermore, we show that the fundamental solution $Φ$ is $-α^{*}$ homogeneous and Lipschitz continuous, where the constant $α^{*}∈(0,d)$. A Liouville-type theorem demonstrates that the fundamental solution $Φ$ is the unique nontrivial solution of $L_{σ}u = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}^{d}\setminus\{0\}$ that is bounded from below.

Keywords: Integro-differential equation, fundamental solution, homogeneous integral kernel, Bessel potential space, Liouville type theorem.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 45K05; Secondary: 35R09.

Citation: Yi Cao, Jianhua Wu, Lihe Wang. Fundamental solutions of a class of homogeneous integro-differential elliptic equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2019, 39 (3) : 1237-1256. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019053

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[14]	W. Chen, L. D'Ambrosio and Y. Li, Some Liouville theorems for the fractional Laplacian, Nonlinear Anal., 121 (2015), 370-381. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2014.11.003. Google Scholar
[15]	Y. Chen and C. Wei, Partial regularity of solutions to the fractional Navier-Stokes equations, Discrete Contin. Dynami. Systems, 36 (2016), 5309-5322. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016033. Google Scholar
[16]	Z. Chen and X. Zhang, Heat kernels and analyticity of non-symmetric jump diffusion semigroups, Probab. Theory Relat. Fields, 165 (2016), 267-312. doi: 10.1007/s00440-015-0631-y. Google Scholar
[17]	T. Cheng, Monotonicity and symmetry of solutions to fractional Laplacian equation, Discrete Contin. Dynami. Systems, 37 (2017), 3587-3599. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017154. Google Scholar
[18]	H. Dong and D. Kim, On $ L^{p}$-estimates for a class of non-local elliptic equations, J. Funct. Anal., 262 (2012), 1166-1199. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2011.11.002. Google Scholar
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[26]	L. Silvestre, Hölder estimates for solutions of integro differential equations like the fractional laplace, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 55 (2006), 1155-1174. doi: 10.1512/iumj.2006.55.2706. Google Scholar
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[28]	P. R. Stinga and J. L. Torrea, Extension problem and Harnack's inequality for some fractional operators, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 35 (2010), 2092-2122. doi: 10.1080/03605301003735680. Google Scholar
[29]	L. Véron, Singularities of Solutions of Second Order Quasilinear Equations, Pitman research notes in mathematics Series, 353. Longman. Harlow, 1996. Google Scholar
[30]	Z. Wang and H. Zhou, Radial sign-changing solution for fractional Schrödinger equation, Discrete Contin. Dynami. Systems, 36 (2016), 499-508. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.499. Google Scholar
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