"Regularity Techniques for Elliptic PDEs and the Fractional Laplacian presents important analytic and geometric techniques to prove regularity estimates for solutions to second order elliptic equations, both in divergence and nondivergence form, and to nonlocal equations driven by the fractional Laplacian. The emphasis is placed on ideas and the development of intuition, while at the same time being completely rigorous. The reader should keep in mind that this text is about how analysis can be applied toregularity estimates. Many methods are nonlinear in nature, but the focus is on linear equations without lower order terms, thus avoiding bulky computations. The philosophy underpinning the book is that ideas must be flushed out in the cleanest and simplest ways, showing all the details and always maintaining rigor"--
Regularity Techniques for Elliptic PDEs and the Fractional Laplacian presents important analytic and geometric techniques to prove regularity estimates for solutions to second order elliptic equations, both in divergence and nondivergence form, and to nonlocal equations driven by the fractional Laplacian. The emphasis is placed on ideas and the development of intuition, while at the same time being completely rigorous. The reader should keep in mind that this text is about how analysis can be applied to regularity estimates. Many methods are nonlinear in nature, but the focus is on linear equations without lower order terms, thus avoiding bulky computations. The philosophy underpinning the book is that ideas must be ?ushed out in the cleanest and simplest ways, showing all the details and always maintaining rigor.
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- Self-contained treatment of the topic
- Bridges the gap between upper undergraduate textbooks and advanced monographs to offer a useful, accessible reference for students and researchers.
- Replete with useful references.
This book presents important analytic and geometric techniques to prove regularity estimates for solutions to second order elliptic equations, both in divergence and nondivergence form, and to nonlocal equations driven by the fractional Laplacian.
1. Introduction. 1.1. Divergence Form Equations. 1.2. Nondivergence Form
Equations. 1.3. Nonlocal Equations: The Fractional Laplacian. Section I. The
Laplacian.
2. Harmonic Functions. 2.1. Definition and Examples. 2.2. The Mean
Value Property and Smoothness. 2.3. Consequences of the Mean Value Property.
3. The Schauder estimates for the Laplacian. 3.1. Review of Fourier
Transform. 3.2. The Poisson Equation: Ideas of the Method. 3.3. The Classical
Heat Semigroup. 3.4. The Fundamental Solution of the Laplacian. 3.5.
Solvability of the Poisson Equation. 3.6. Schauder Estimates by
Representation Formulas. 3.7. Schauder Estimates by the Method of Maximum
Principle.
4. The CaldernZygmund estimates for the Laplacian. 4.1.
Solvability with Lp Right Hand Side. 4.2. L2 Estimate for Second Derivatives.
4.3. The CaldernZygmund Theorem. 4.4. The BMO Space. 4.5. The
JohnNirenberg Inequality. 4.6. Principal Value Representation of Second
Derivatives. II. Divergence Form Equations.
5. The De Giorgi Theorem. 5.1.
The De Giorgi Theorem. 5.2. L2 Implies L. 5.3. L Implies C: De Giorgis
Geometric Proof. 5.4. L Implies C: Mosers Critical Density Proof.
6. The
Moser Theorem. 6.1. The Moser Theorem. 6.2. Upper and Lower Bounds. 6.3.
Closing the Gap. 6.4. Harnack Inequality Implies Hölder Regularity.
7.
Perturbation theory for Divergence Form Equations. 7.1. Schauder Estimates.
7.2. CaldernZygmund Estimates. Section III. Nondivergence Form Equations.
8. Viscosity Solutions and the ABP Estimate. 8.1 Nondivergence Form
Equations. 8.2 Viscosity Solutions. 8.3. The AlexandroffBakelmanPucci
Estimate.
9. The KrylovSafonov Harnack Inequality. 9.1. The KrylovSafonov
Harnack Inequality. 9.2 The Weak-L Estimate for Supersolutions. 9.3.
Subsolutions in Weak-L are Bounded and Conclusion.
10. Savins Method of
Sliding Paraboloids. 10.1. Savins Sliding Paraboloids for Harnack
Inequality. 10.2. The Point-To-Measure Estimate for Supersolutions. 10.3. The
Localization Lemma. 10.4. The Covering Lemma. 10.5. Conclusion: Proof of the
Harnack Inequality.
11. Perturbation Theory for Nondivergence Form Equations.
11.1. Schauder Estimates. 11.2. CaldernZygmund Estimates. Section IV. The
Fractional Laplacian.
12. Basic Properties of the Fractional Laplacian. 12.1.
Method of Semigroups and Pointwise Formulas. 12.2. Pointwise Limits. 12.3.
Maximum and Comparison Principles. 12.4. The Inverse Fractional Laplacian.
12.5. Weak Solutions and Fractional Sobolev Spaces. 12.6. An Explicit
Example. 12.7. Viscosity and Pointwise Solutions, Hölder Regularity.
13.
Hölder and Schauder Estimates. 13.1 Hölder Estimates. 13.2 Schauder
Estimates. 13.3 Regularity Estimates via the Method of Semigroups.
14. The
CaffarelliSilvestre Extension Problem. 14.1. The Extension Problem for
()1/2 . 14.2. The Extension Problem for ()s . 14.3. A Detour to
Degenerate Elliptic Equations. 14.4. Applications to Regularity Estimates.
Pablo Raúl Stinga earned his Licenciatura en Ciencias Matemáticas degree at Universidad Nacional de San Luis, in San Luis, Argentina (2005). He earned his Máster en Matemáticas y Aplicaciones (2007), and his Doctorado en Matemáticas Doctor Europeus under the direction of José L.Torrea at Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain (2010). He held postdoctoral research positions at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain (2010) and Universidad de La Rioja, Spain (20112012). During the period 20122015, he was the R.H. Bing Fellow in Mathematics No.1 Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Luis A. Caffarelli. He is currently Associate Professor at Iowa State University, USA. His research interests are in analysis, partial differential equations and nonlocal fractional equations.
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