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.

We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is $u_t=\nabla ·\left(u\nabla {(-\Delta )}^{-s}u\right),0<s<1$. The problem is posed in $\{x\in {ℝ}^n,t\in ℝ\}$ with nonnegative initial data $u(x,0)$ that are integrable and decay at infinity. A previous paper has established the existence of mass-preserving, nonnegative weak solutions satisfying energy estimates and finite propagation. As main results we establish the boundedness and $C^{\alpha }$ regularity of such weak solutions. Finally, we extend...

We introduce function spaces $B^{p,\lambda }$ with Morrey-Campanato norms, which unify $B^{p,\lambda }$, $CM{O}^{p,\lambda }$ and Morrey-Campanato spaces, and prove the boundedness of the fractional integral operator $I_{\alpha }$ on these spaces.

For α ∈ (1,2) we consider the equation ${\partial }_{t}u={\Delta }^{\alpha /2}u+b·\nabla u$, where b is a time-independent, divergence-free singular vector field of the Morrey class $M{₁}^{1-\alpha }$. We show that if the Morrey norm ${\left|\right|b\left|\right|}_{M{₁}^{1-\alpha }}$ is sufficiently small, then the fundamental solution is globally in time comparable with the density of the isotropic stable process.

Let G = (V,E) be a graph. A function g:V → [0,1] is called a global dominating function (GDF) of G, if for every v ∈ V, $g\left(N\left[v\right]\right)={\sum }_{u\in N\left[v\right]}g\left(u\right)\ge 1$ and $g\left(\overline{N\left(v\right)}\right)={\sum }_{u\notin N\left(v\right)}g\left(u\right)\ge 1$. A GDF g of a graph G is called minimal (MGDF) if for all functions f:V → [0,1] such that f ≤ g and f(v) ≠ g(v) for at least one v ∈ V, f is not a GDF. The fractional global domination number ${\gamma }_{fg}\left(G\right)$ is defined as follows: ${\gamma }_{fg}\left(G\right)$ = min|g|:g is an MGDF of G where $\left|g\right|={\sum }_{v\in V}g\left(v\right)$. In this paper we initiate a study of this parameter.

In this paper, we consider the following boundary value problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{D}_{T^{-}}^{\alpha }\left(D_{0^{+}}^{\alpha }\left(D_{T^{-}}^{\alpha }\left(D_{0^{+}}^{\alpha }u\left(t\right)\right)\right)\right)=f(t,u\left(t\right)),t\in [0,T],\hfill \\ u\left(0\right)=u\left(T\right)=0\hfill \\ D_{T^{-}}^{\alpha }\left(D_{0^{+}}^{\alpha }u\left(0\right)\right)=D_{T^{-}}^{\alpha }\left(D_{0^{+}}^{\alpha }u\left(T\right)\right)=0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $0<\alpha \le 1$ and $f:[0,T]\times ℝ\to ℝ$ is a continuous function, $D_{0^{+}}^{\alpha }$, $D_{T^{-}}^{\alpha }$ are respectively the left and right fractional Riemann–Liouville derivatives and we prove the existence of at least one solution for this problem.

We establish the existence, uniqueness and main properties of the fundamental solutions for the fractional porous medium equation introduced in [51]. They are self-similar functions of the form $u(x,t)=t^{–\alpha }f\left(\right|x|t^{–\beta })$ with suitable $$ and $\beta$. As a main application of this construction, we prove that the asymptotic behaviour of general solutions is represented by such special solutions. Very singular solutions are also constructed. Among other interesting qualitative properties of the equation we prove an Aleksandrov...

We introduce the generalized fractional integrals $I{̃}_{\alpha ,d}$ and prove the strong and weak boundedness of $I{̃}_{\alpha ,d}$ on the central Morrey spaces $B^{p,\lambda }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$. In order to show the boundedness, the generalized λ-central mean oscillation spaces ${\Lambda }_{p,\lambda }^{\left(d\right)}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ and the generalized weak λ-central mean oscillation spaces $W{\Lambda }_{p,\lambda }^{\left(d\right)}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ play an important role.

Given a two-dimensional fractional multiplicative process ${\left(F_t\right)}_{t\in [0,1]}$ determined by two Hurst exponents $H_1$ and $H_2$, we show that there is an associated uniform Hausdorff dimension result for the images of subsets of $[0,1]$ by $F$ if and only if $H_1=H_2$.

We consider a double analytic family of fractional integrals $S_z^{\gamma ,\alpha }$ along the curve ${t\mapsto \left|t\right|}^{\alpha }$, introduced for α = 2 by L. Grafakos in 1993 and defined by $\left(S_z^{\gamma ,\alpha }f\right)(x₁,x₂):=1/\Gamma (z+1/2){\int \int |u-1|}^z\psi (u-1){f(x₁-t,x₂-u|t|}^{\alpha }{\left)du\right|t|}^{\gamma }dt/t$, where ψ is a bump function on ℝ supported near the origin, $f{\in }_c^{\infty }\left(ℝ²\right)$, z,γ ∈ ℂ, Re γ ≥ 0, α ∈ ℝ, α ≥ 2. We determine the set of all (1/p,1/q,Re z) such that $S_z^{\gamma ,\alpha }$ maps $L^p\left(ℝ²\right)$ to $L^q\left(ℝ²\right)$ boundedly. Our proof is based on product-type kernel arguments. More precisely, we prove that the kernel $K_{-1+i\theta }^{i\varrho ,\alpha }$ is a product kernel on ℝ², adapted to the curve ${t\mapsto \left|t\right|}^{\alpha }$; as a consequence, we show...

We take some well-known inequalities for Green functions relative to Laplace’s equation, and prove not only analogues of them relative to the heat equation, but generalizations of those analogues to the heat potentials of nonnegative measures on an arbitrary open set $E$ whose supports are compact polar subsets of $E$. We then use the special case where the measure associated to the potential has point support, in the following situation. Given a nonnegative supertemperature on an open set...

Recently, Cilleruelo, Kumchev, Luca, Rué and Shparlinski proved that for each integer a ≥ 2 the sequence of fractional parts ${aⁿ/n}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ is everywhere dense in the interval [0,1]. We prove a similar result for all Pisot numbers and Salem numbers α and show that for each c > 0 and each sufficiently large N, every subinterval of [0,1] of length $c{N}^{-0.475}$ contains at least one fractional part Q(αⁿ)/n, where Q is a nonconstant polynomial in ℤ[z] and n is an integer satisfying 1 ≤ n ≤ N.

The following iterated commutators $T_{\ast ,\Pi b}$ of the maximal operator for multilinear singular integral operators and $I_{\alpha ,\Pi b}$ of the multilinear fractional integral operator are introduced and studied: $T_{\ast ,\Pi b}\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)=su{p}_{\delta >0}\left|[b₁,[b₂,\dots {[b_{m-1},[bₘ,T_{\delta }]ₘ]}_{m-1}\cdots ]₂]₁\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)\right|$, $I_{\alpha ,\Pi b}\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)=[b₁,[b₂,\dots {[b_{m-1},[bₘ,I_{\alpha }]ₘ]}_{m-1}\cdots ]₂]₁\left(f⃗\right)\left(x\right)$, where $T_{\delta }$ are the smooth truncations of the multilinear singular integral operators and $I_{\alpha }$ is the multilinear fractional integral operator, $b_i\in BMO$ for i = 1,…,m and f⃗ = (f1,…,fm). Weighted strong and L(logL) type end-point estimates for the above iterated commutators associated with two classes of multiple...

In the paper we study the subject of stability of systems with $h$-differences of Caputo-, Riemann-Liouville- and Grünwald-Letnikov-type with $n$ fractional orders. The equivalent descriptions of fractional $h$-difference systems are presented. The sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability are given. Moreover, the Lyapunov direct method is used to analyze the stability of the considered systems with $n$-orders.

We collect and extend results on the limit of ${\sigma }^{1-k}{(1-\sigma )}^k{\left|v\right|}_{l+\sigma ,p,\Omega }^p$ as σ → 0⁺ or σ → 1¯, where Ω is ℝⁿ or a smooth bounded domain, k ∈ 0,1, l ∈ ℕ, p ∈ [1,∞), and ${\left|·\right|}_{l+\sigma ,p,\Omega }$ is the intrinsic seminorm of order l+σ in the Sobolev space $W^{l+\sigma ,p}\left(\Omega \right)$. In general, the above limit is equal to $c{\left[v\right]}^p$, where c and [·] are, respectively, a constant and a seminorm that we explicitly provide. The particular case p = 2 for Ω = ℝⁿ is also examined and the results are then proved by using the Fourier transform.

We consider the summation equation, for $t\in {[\mu -2,\mu +b]}_{{\mathbb{N}}_{\mu -2}}$, $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill y\left(t\right)={\gamma }_1\left(t\right)H_1\left(\sum _{i=1}^n{a}_{i}y\left({\xi }_i\right)\right)& +{\gamma }_2\left(t\right)H_2\left(\sum _{i=1}^m{b}_{i}y\left({\zeta }_i\right)\right)\hfill & \hfill +\lambda \sum _{s=0}^{b}G(t,s)f(s+\mu -1,y(s+\mu -1))\end{array}$$ in the case where the map $(t,s)\mapsto G(t,s)$ may change sign; here $\mu \in (1,2]$ is a parameter, which may be understood as the order of an associated discrete fractional boundary value problem. In spite of the fact that $G$ is allowed to change sign, by introducing a new cone we are able to establish the existence of at least one positive solution to this problem by imposing some growth conditions on the functions $H_1$ and $H_2$. Finally, as an application of the abstract existence...

Let d > 0 and θ ∈ (0,1]. We consider homogeneous type spaces, ${(X,\varrho ,\mu )}_{d,\theta }$, which are variants of the well known homogeneous type spaces in the sense of Coifman and Weiss. We introduce fractional integrals and derivatives, and prove that the Besov spaces $B_{pq}^s\left(X\right)$ and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces $F_{pq}^s\left(X\right)$ have the lifting properties for |s| < θ. Moreover, we give explicit representations for the inverses of these fractional integrals and derivatives. By using these representations, we prove that the fractional...

We consider a family of nonlinear stochastic heat equations of the form ${\partial }_{t}u=ℒu+\sigma \left(u\right)\dot{W}$, where $\dot{W}$ denotes space–time white noise, $ℒ$ the generator of a symmetric Lévy process on $𝐑$, and $\sigma$ is Lipschitz continuous and zero at 0. We show that this stochastic PDE has a random-field solution for every finite initial measure $u_0$. Tight a priori bounds on the moments of the solution are also obtained. In the particular case that $ℒf=c{f}^{\text{'}\text{'}}$ for some $cgt;0$, we prove that if $u_0$ is a finite measure of compact support, then the...

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative boundary blow-up solutions to the cooperative system ${\Delta }_{p}u=g(u-\alpha v),{\Delta }_{p}v=f(v-\beta u)$ in a smooth bounded domain of ${ℝ}^N$, where ${\Delta }_p$ is the p-Laplacian operator defined by ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ with p > 1, f and g are nondecreasing, nonnegative C¹ functions, and α and β are two positive parameters. The asymptotic behavior of solutions near the boundary is obtained and we get a uniqueness result for p = 2.