Direct methods on fractional equations

Wenxiong Chen; Shijie Qi

doi:10.3934/dcds.2019055

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2019, Volume 39, Issue 3: 1269-1310. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019055

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Direct methods on fractional equations

Wenxiong Chen^1, and
Shijie Qi^2,3,

1.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University, New York NY 10033, USA
2.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
3.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University, USA

Received: December 31, 2017

Revised: April 30, 2018

Published: December 2018

The second author is partially supported Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2017-it53)

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In this paper, we summarize some of the recent developments in the area of fractional equations with focus on the ideas and direct methods on fractional non-local operators. These results have more or less appeared in a series of previous literature, in which the ideas were usually submerged in detailed calculations. What we are trying to do here is to single out these ideas and illustrate the inner connections among them, so that the readers can see the whole picture and quickly grasp the essence of these useful methods and apply them to a variety of problems in this area.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J60; Secondary: 35B06.

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