On a Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn Inequality for the Regional Fractional Laplacian

On a Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn Inequality for the Regional Fractional Laplacian

Year:    2021

Author:    Tianling Jin, Dennis Kriventsov, Jingang Xiong

Annals of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2021), Iss. 3 : pp. 363–393

Abstract

We study a Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn inequality for regional fractional Laplacian operators. In particular, we show that there exists a compactly supported nonnegative Sobolev function $u_0$ that attains the infimum (which will be a positive real number) of the set$$\left\{\iint_{\{u>0\}\times\{u>0\}}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^2}{|x-y|^{n+2\sigma}}dxdy:u\in H^{\sigma}(\mathbb{R}^n), \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}u^2=1, |\{u>0\}|\le 1\right\}$$Unlike the corresponding problem for the usual fractional Laplacian, where the domain of the integration is $\mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^n$, symmetrization techniques may not apply here. Our approach is instead based on the direct method and new a priori diameter estimates. We also present several remaining open questions concerning the regularity and shape of the minimizers, and the form of the Euler-Lagrange equations.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/aam.OA-2021-0005

Annals of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2021), Iss. 3 : pp. 363–393

Published online:    2021-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    31

Keywords:    Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn inequality regional fractional Laplacian first eigenvalue.

Author Details

Tianling Jin

Dennis Kriventsov

Jingang Xiong