A PDE approach to fractional diffusion in general domains: a priori error analysis (Q2355333)

The article is concerned with Dirichlet boundary value problems with fractional elliptic differential operators, in particular the fractional Laplacian, on bounded \(n\)-dimensional domains. The authors propose to study an equivalent local problem on a cylindrical domain in dimension \(n +1\), in order to develop numerical discretization schemes with anisotropic tensor product finite elements. A priori error estimates for this discretization in weighted Sobolev spaces are derived. Numerical examples illustrate the method.