A Hopf lemma and regularity for fractional $ p $-Laplacians

Wenxiong Chen; Congming Li; Shijie Qi

doi:10.3934/dcds.2020034

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2020, Volume 40, Issue 6: 3235-3252. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020034 open access

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A Hopf lemma and regularity for fractional $ p $-Laplacians

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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA
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School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200234, China
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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

^* Corresponding author: Congming Li
^* Corresponding author: Congming Li

Received: January 2019

Revised: May 2019

Published: March 2020

The first author was partially supported by the Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians (245486), and the second author was partially supported by NSFC (11571233).

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In this paper, we study qualitative properties of the fractional $ p $-Laplacian. Specifically, we establish a Hopf type lemma for positive weak super-solutions of the fractional $ p- $Laplacian equation with Dirichlet condition. Moreover, an optimal condition is obtained to ensure $ (-\triangle)_p^s u\in C^1(\mathbb{R}^n) $ for smooth functions $ u $.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R11, 35J91; Secondary: 35B65.

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