Uniqueness and some related estimates for Dirichlet problem with fractional Laplacian

TL;DR

This paper investigates the uniqueness of solutions to the fractional Laplace equation, establishing sharp conditions and exploring related functional spaces to deepen understanding of the equation's fundamental properties.

Contribution

It provides a sharp uniqueness condition for the fractional Laplace equation and analyzes associated weighted fractional Sobolev spaces.

Findings

Established a sharp uniqueness condition for the fractional Laplace problem.

Derived $L^p$-estimates for fractional Laplacian operators.

Explored embedding relations between weighted fractional Sobolev spaces.

Abstract

For the fractional Laplace equation, a surprising observation is the non-uniqueness for the basic Dirichlet type problems. In this paper, a somewhat sharp uniqueness condition for the fractional Laplace equation is established. We derive the $L^p$-estimate for fractional Laplacian operators to better understand this phenomena. Several weighted fractional Sobolev spaces appear naturally. We then establish the embedding relations between these spaces. These existence-uniqueness conditions and the spaces we introduce here are intrinsically related to the fractional Laplacian. These are basic properties to the fractional Laplace equations and can be useful in the study of related problems.