Integration by parts and Pohozaev identities for space-dependent fractional-order operators

Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Boundary value problems for PDEs with pseudodifferential operators (35S15) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30)

Abstract: Consider a classical elliptic pseudodifferential operator

P

on

{B b b R}^{n}

of order

2 a

(

0 < a < 1)

with even symbol. For example,

P = A (x, D)^{a}

where

A (x, D)

is a second-order strongly elliptic differential operator; the fractional Laplacian

(- D e l t a)^{a}

is a particular case. For solutions

u

of the Dirichlet problem on a bounded smooth subset

O m e g a s u b s e t {B b b R}^{n}

, we show an integration-by-parts formula with a boundary integral involving

(d^{- a} u) |_{p a r t i a l O m e g a}

, where

d (x) = o p e r a t o r n a m e d i s t (x, p a r t i a l O m e g a)

. This extends recent results of Ros-Oton, Serra and Valdinoci, to operators that are

x

-dependent, nonsymmetric, and have lower-order parts. We also generalize their formula of Pohozaev-type, that can be used to prove unique continuation properties, and nonexistence of nontrivial solutions of semilinear problems. An illustration is given with

P = (- D e l t a + m^{2})^{a}

. The basic step in our analysis is a factorization of

P

,

P s i m P^{-} P^{+}

, where we set up a calculus for the generalized pseudodifferential operators

P^{p} m

that come out of the construction.

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