The obstacle problem for a higher order fractional Laplacian

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02557-9MaRDI QIDQ6137580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Danielli, Alaa Haj Ali, Arshak Petrosyan

Publication date 4 September 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07201

zbMATH Keywords

thin obstacle problemweighted b-biharmonic operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Unilateral problems for linear elliptic equations and variational inequalities with linear elliptic operators (35J86) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-Delta{)}^s$ in the Euclidian space $mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper half-space $mathbb{R}_{+}^{n+1}$ to obtain a thin obstacle problem for the weighted biLaplace operator $Delt{a}_b^{2}U$, where $Delt{a}_{b}U=y^{-b}ablacdot(y^{b}ablaU)$. Such a problem arises in connection with unilateral phenomena for elastic, homogenous, and isotropic flat plates. We establish the well-posedness and $C_{loc}^{1,1}(R^n)cap{H}^{1+s}(R^n)$-regularity of the solution. By writing the solutions in terms of Riesz potentials of suitable local measures, we can base our proofs on tools from potential theory, such as a continuity principle and a maximum principle. Finally, we deduce the regularity of the extension problem to the higher dimensional upper half space. This gives an extension of Schild's work in cite{Sc1} and cite{Sc2} from the case $b=0$ to the general case $-1<b<1$.

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