Boggio's formula for fractional polyharmonic Dirichlet problems (Q2406441)

The polyharmonic Green function for the unit ball of \(\mathbb{R}^n \), see [\textit{T. Boggio}, ``Sulle funzioni di Green d'ordine \(m\)'', Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 20, 97--135 (1905)] is extended to polyharmonic operators \((-\triangle)^s=(-\triangle)^m(-\triangle)^\sigma\), \(s=m+\sigma\), \(m\in \mathbb{N}\), \(0<\sigma<1\), of any fractional order \(0<s\). For \(0<s<1\) this extension is due to \textit{C. Bucur} [Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 15, No. 2, 657--699 (2016; Zbl 1334.35383)]. As a byproduct the strict positivity of the Boggio Green function is shown to preserve positivity, i.e., positivity of the right-hand side of the s-Poisson equation implies positivity of the solution under homogeneous Dirichlet data.