The Dirichlet problem for nonlocal operators

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Abstract: In this note we set up the elliptic and the parabolic Dirichlet problem for linear nonlocal operators. As opposed to the classical case of second order differential operators, here the "boundary data" are prescribed on the complement of a given bounded set. We formulate the problem in the classical framework of Hilbert spaces and prove unique solvability using standard techniques like the Fredholm alternative.


The authors consider elliptic and parabolic Dirichlet problems for linear nonlocal operators with known boundary data on the complement of a given bounded set. Unique solvability is obtained in convenient spaces. The method is based on an appropriate combination of nonlocal versions of the Poincaré-Friedrichs inequality, a Gårding inequality, the Lax-Milgram lemma, the weak maximum principle for integro-differential operators in bounded domains, and the Fredholm alternative. Several concrete examples of the used kernels are included and discussed in the final section.



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