Fractional Laplacian in conformal geometry (Q616889)

The authors study the connection between the work of two groups. Namely, they clarify the connection between the study of the properties of fractional Laplacian operators as non-local operators together with applications to free-boundary value problems and non-local minimal surfaces and the study of a general class of conformally covariant operators parametrized by a real number and defined on the boundary of a conformally compact Einstein manifold. They extend the work of \textit{L. Caffarelli} and \textit{L. Silvestre} [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 32, No. 8, 1245--1260 (2007; Zbl 1143.26002)]. Moreover, they discuss the extension theorem in the general setting of conformally compact Einstein manifolds and on a general asymptotically hyperbolic manifold; where the boundary manifold may not be the totally geodesic boundary of an asymptotically hyperbolic space.