What is the fractional Laplacian? A comparative review with new results

A Lischke, G Pang, M Gulian, F Song, C Glusa… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fractional Laplacian in R d, which we write as (− Δ) α/2 with α∈(0, 2), has multiple
equivalent characterizations. Moreover, in bounded domains, boundary conditions must be …

Recent progress in the theory of nonlinear diffusion with fractional Laplacian operators

JL Vázquez - arxiv preprint arxiv:1401.3640, 2014 - arxiv.org
We report on recent progress in the study of nonlinear diffusion equations involving
nonlocal, long-range diffusion effects. Our main concern is the so-called fractional porous …

Numerical methods for nonlocal and fractional models

M D'Elia, Q Du, C Glusa, M Gunzburger, X Tian… - Acta Numerica, 2020 - cambridge.org
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used with huge success to model phenomena
across all scientific and engineering disciplines. However, across an equally wide swath …

A fractional Laplace equation: regularity of solutions and finite element approximations

G Acosta, JP Borthagaray - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2017 - SIAM
This paper deals with the integral version of the Dirichlet homogeneous fractional Laplace
equation. For this problem weighted and fractional Sobolev a priori estimates are provided …

Fractional elliptic equations, Caccioppoli estimates and regularity

LA Caffarelli, PR Stinga - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré C, Analyse …, 2016 - Elsevier
Let L=− div x (A (x)∇ x) be a uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form in a bounded
domain Ω. We consider the fractional nonlocal equations {L su= f, in Ω, u= 0, on∂ Ω, and {L …

Numerical methods for fractional diffusion

A Bonito, JP Borthagaray, RH Nochetto… - … and Visualization in …, 2018 - Springer
We present three schemes for the numerical approximation of fractional diffusion, which
build on different definitions of such a non-local process. The first method is a PDE approach …

Numerical methods for the fractional Laplacian: A finite difference-quadrature approach

Y Huang, A Oberman - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2014 - SIAM
The fractional Laplacian (-Δ)^α/2 is a nonlocal operator which depends on the parameter α
and recovers the usual Laplacian as α→2. A numerical method for the fractional Laplacian is …

The mathematical theories of diffusion: nonlinear and fractional diffusion

JA Carrillo, M del Pino, A Figalli, G Mingione… - Nonlocal and Nonlinear …, 2017 - Springer
We describe the mathematical theory of diffusion and heat transport with a view to including
some of the main directions of recent research. The linear heat equation is the basic …

Numerical approximation of fractional powers of elliptic operators

A Bonito, J Pasciak - Mathematics of Computation, 2015 - ams.org
We present and study a novel numerical algorithm to approximate the action of $ T^\beta:=
L^{-\beta} $ where $ L $ is a symmetric and positive definite unbounded operator on a …

User's guide to the fractional Laplacian and the method of semigroups

PR Stinga - Handbook of fractional calculus with applications, 2019 - degruyter.com
The method of semigroups is a unifying, widely applicable, general technique to formulate
and analyze fundamental aspects of fractional powers of operators L and their regularity …