Boundary regularity estimates for nonlocal elliptic equations in C^1 and C^1, domains

DOI10.1007/S10231-016-0632-1MaRDI QIDQ2409368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Ros-Oton, Joaquim Serra

Publication date 11 October 2017

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07171

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^1\) domainsboundary regularitynonlocal equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Integro-differential operators (47G20)

Abstract: We establish sharp boundary regularity estimates in $C^1$ and $C^{1,alpha}$ domains for nonlocal problems of the form $Lu=f$ in $Omega$, $u=0$ in $Omeg{a}^c$. Here, $L$ is a nonlocal elliptic operator of order $2s$, with $sin(0,1)$. First, in $C^{1,alpha}$ domains we show that all solutions $u$ are $C^s$ up to the boundary and that $$, where $d$ is the distance to $partialOmega$. In $C^1$ domains, solutions are in general not comparable to $d^s$, and we prove a boundary Harnack principle in such domains. Namely, we show that if $u_1$ and $u_2$ are positive solutions, then $u_1/u_2$ is bounded and H"older continuous up to the boundary. Finally, we establish analogous results for nonlocal equations with bounded measurable coefficients in non-divergence form. All these regularity results will be essential tools in a forthcoming work on free boundary problems for nonlocal elliptic operators cite{CRS-obstacle}.

Review text

The authors prove sharp boundary regularity results in \(C^1\) and \(C^{1,\alpha}\) domains for non-local problems of the form \(Lu= f\) in \(\Omega\) and \(u=0\) in \(\Omega^c\). \(L\) is a nonlocal elliptic operator of order \(2s\) with \(s\in(0,1)\) and \(f\) is a function with suitable properties. In the case of \(C^{1,\alpha}\) domains, it is possible to prove that all solutions \(u\) are \(C^s\) up to the boundary and \(\frac{u}{d^s}\) are \(C^\alpha\) in \(\bar{\Omega}\). In the case of \(C^1\) boundary, the authors are able to prove that, if \(u_1\) and \(u_2\) are positive solutions, then \(\frac{u_1}{u_2}\) is bounded and Hölder continuous up to the boundary. Analogous results are established in the case of operators in divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients. All these results will be used in a forthcoming paper in collaboration with Caffarelli.

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