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We study minimal thinness in the half-space $H:=\{x=(\tilde{x},x_d):\tilde{x}\in {ℝ}^{d-1},x_d\>0\}$ for a large class of subordinate Brownian motions. We show that the same test for the minimal thinness of a subset of $H$ below the graph of a nonnegative Lipschitz function is valid for all processes in the considered class. In the classical case of Brownian motion this test was proved by Burdzy.

We consider the fractional Laplacian $-{(-\Delta )}^{\alpha /2}$ on an open subset in ${ℝ}^d$ with zero exterior condition. We establish sharp two-sided estimates for the heat kernel of such a Dirichlet fractional Laplacian in $C^{1,1}$ open sets. This heat kernel is also the transition density of a rotationally symmetric $\alpha$-stable process killed upon leaving a $C^{1,1}$ open set. Our results are the first sharp twosided estimates for the Dirichlet heat kernel of a non-local operator on open sets.