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On the Dirichlet problem for second-order elliptic integro-differential equations. (English) Zbl 1139.47057

The authors consider the analogue of the Dirichlet problem for second-order elliptic integro-differential equations, and the viscosity solutions approach where the Dirichlet boundary condition may be satisfied only in a generalized sense. They look for conditions on the differential and the integral parts of the equation in order to ensure that the Dirichlet boundary condition is satisfied in the classical sense. They study the behavior of solutions at the boundary in different cases. They start with a linear equation involving the fractional Laplacian on the half-space, and they generalize this to a large class of Lévy operators on smooth domains. They provide an existence result of a continuous viscosity solution to the non-local Dirichlet problem by using Perron’s method.

MSC:

47N20 Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations
45K05 Integro-partial differential equations
47G20 Integro-differential operators
35D99 Generalized solutions to partial differential equations
35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations
35J65 Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations
35J67 Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems
49L25 Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games