The obstacle problem for nonlinear integro-differential operators

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-0999-2MaRDI QIDQ2628987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Janne Korvenpää, Tuomo Kuusi, Giampiero Palatucci

Publication date 19 July 2016

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04521

zbMATH Keywords

fractional \(p\)-Laplacianfractional weak supersolutionnonlocal nonlinear operatorobstacle problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Generalized solutions to partial differential equations (35D99) PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Integro-differential operators (47G20)

Abstract: We investigate the obstacle problem for a class of nonlinear equations driven by nonlocal, possibly degenerate, integro-differential operators, whose model is the fractional $p$-Laplacian operator with measurable coefficients. Amongst other results, we will prove both the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the obstacle problem, and that these solutions inherit regularity properties, such as boundedness, continuity and H"older continuity (up to the boundary), from the obstacle.

Review text

This paper deals with the obstacle problem (the obstacle being denoted by \(h\)) related to the following class of nonlinear integro-differential equations: \[ Lu=\text{p.v. }\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} K(x,y)|u(x)- u(y)|^{p-2} (u(x)- u(y))\,dy= 0,\;x\in\mathbb{R}^n\tag{\(*\)} \] with a measurable kernel and such that \(\Lambda^{-1}\leq K|x-y|^{n+sp}\leq\Lambda\) for some \(s\in(0,1)\), \(p>1\), \(\Lambda\geq 1\). In the case \(p= 2\), \(\Lambda=1\) we recover the fractional Laplacian operator. The authors formulate the natural variational framework for the obstacle problem under consideration and prove both the existence and uniqueness of the solution \(u\) to the above-mentioned variational problem (Theorem 1). Moreover, \(u\) is a weak supersolution to \((*)\). The solution \(u\) inherits the regularity properties of \(h\), namely the boundedness (Theorem 2), continuity (Theorem 4) and Hölder continuity (Theorem 3). Theorems 6, 7 formulated at the end of the paper study the regularity of \(u\) up to the boundary (Hölder continuity and standard continuity).

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