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June  2020, 40(6): 3235-3252. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020034

A Hopf lemma and regularity for fractional $ p $-Laplacians

Wenxiong Chen 1, , Congming Li 2,, and  Shijie Qi 3,1,

1. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033, USA
2. 

School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200234, China
3. 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

* Corresponding author: Congming Li

Received  January 2019 Revised  May 2019 Published  October 2019

Fund Project: The first author was partially supported by the Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians (245486), and the second author was partially supported by NSFC (11571233)

In this paper, we study qualitative properties of the fractional $ p $-Laplacian. Specifically, we establish a Hopf type lemma for positive weak super-solutions of the fractional $ p- $Laplacian equation with Dirichlet condition. Moreover, an optimal condition is obtained to ensure $ (-\triangle)_p^s u\in C^1(\mathbb{R}^n) $ for smooth functions $ u $.

Keywords: Fractional $ p $-Laplacian, Hopf type lemma, regularity.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R11, 35J91; Secondary: 35B65.
Citation: Wenxiong Chen, Congming Li, Shijie Qi. A Hopf lemma and regularity for fractional $ p $-Laplacians. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2020, 40 (6) : 3235-3252. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020034
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W. Chen, Y. Fang and R. Yang, Liouville theorems involving the fractional Laplacian on a half space, Adv. Math., 274 (2015), 167-198.  doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2014.12.013.  Google Scholar

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W. Chen and C. Li, Maximum principles for the fractional $p$-Laplacian and symmetry of solutions, Adv. Math., 335 (2018), 735-758.  doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2018.07.016.  Google Scholar

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W. Chen, Y. Li and R. Zhang, A direct method of moving spheres on fractional order equations, J. Funct. Anal., 272 (2017), 4131-4157.  doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2017.02.022.  Google Scholar

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L. Jin and Y. Li, A Hopf's Lemma and the Boundary Regularity for the Fractional $p$-Laplacian, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 39 (2019), 1477-1495.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019063.  Google Scholar

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S. Mosconi and M. Squassina, Recent progresses in the theory of nonlinear nonlocal problems, Bruno Pini Math. Analysis Sem., 7 (2016), 147-164.   Google Scholar

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X. Ros-Oton and J. Serra, The Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian: Regularity up to the boundary, J. Math. Pures Appl., 101 (2014), 275-302.  doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2013.06.003.  Google Scholar

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