Fractional convexity

DOI10.1007/S00208-021-02254-YMaRDI QIDQ2160222zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leandro M. Del Pezzo, Alexander Quaas, J. D. Rossi

Publication date 3 August 2022

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04141

zbMATH Keywords

fractional convex envelope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11)

Abstract: We introduce a notion of fractional convexity that extends naturally the usual notion of convexity in the Euclidean space to a fractional setting. With this notion of fractional convexity, we study the fractional convex envelope inside a domain of an exterior datum (the largest possible fractional convex function inside the domain that is below the datum outside) and show that the fractional convex envelope is characterized as a viscosity solution to a non-local equation that is given by the infimum among all possible directions of the $1-$dimensional fractional Laplacian. For this equation we prove existence, uniqueness and a comparison principle (in the framework of viscosity solutions). In addition, we find that solutions to the equation for the convex envelope are related to solutions to the fractional Monge-Ampere equation.

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