Regularity and rigidity theorems for a class of anisotropic nonlocal operators

TL;DR

This paper studies a class of anisotropic nonlocal operators, establishing regularity and rigidity results, including Lipschitz estimates and Liouville theorems, for solutions with specific structural properties.

Contribution

It introduces explicit barrier constructions and proves new regularity and rigidity theorems for anisotropic nonlocal operators of fractional type.

Findings

Lipschitz estimates controlling oscillation of solutions

Rigidity results linking nonlinearity independence to solution structure

Liouville type theorems for solutions with controlled growth

Abstract

We consider here operators which are sum of (possibly) fractional derivatives, with (possibly different) order. The main constructive assumption is that the operator is of order~$2$ in one variable. By constructing an explicit barrier, we prove a Lipschitz estimate which controls the oscillation of the solutions in such direction with respect to the oscillation of the nonlinearity in the same direction. As a consequence, we obtain a rigidity result that, roughly speaking, states that if the nonlinearity is independent of a coordinate direction, then so is any global solution (provided that the solution does not grow too much at infinity). A Liouville type result then follows as a byproduct.