Helmholtz Solutions for the Fractional Laplacian and Other Related Operators

Abstract: We show that the bounded solutions to the fractional Helmholtz equation,

(- D e l t a)^{s} u = u

for

0 < s < 1

in

m a t h b b R^{n}

, are given by the bounded solutions to the classical Helmholtz equation

(- D e l t a) u = u

in

m a t h b b R^{n}

for

n g e 2

when

u

is additionally assumed to be vanishing at

i n f t y

. When

n = 1

, we show that the bounded fractional Helmholtz solutions are again given by the classical solutions

A c o s x + B s i n x

. We show that this classification of fractional Helmholtz solutions extends for

1 < s l e 2

and

s i n m a t h b b N

when

u i n C^{i} n f t y (m a t h b b R^{n})

. Finally, we prove that the classical solutions are the unique bounded solutions to the more general equation

p s i (- D e l t a) u = p s i (1) u

in

m a t h b b R^{n}

, when

p s i

is complete Bernstein and certain regularity conditions are imposed on the associated weight

a (t)

.

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