Fractional Laplacian on the torus

Abstract

We study the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta {)}^{\sigma /2}$ on the $n$-dimensional torus ${\mathbb{T}}^n$, $n\ge 1$. First, we present a general extension problem that describes \textit{any} fractional power $L^{\gamma }$, $\gamma >0$, where $L$ is a general nonnegative selfadjoint operator defined in an $L^2$-space. This generalizes to all $\gamma >0$ and to a large class of operators the previous known results by Caffarelli and Silvestre. In particular it applies to the fractional Laplacian on the torus. The extension problem is used to prove interior and boundary Harnack's inequalities for $(-\Delta {)}^{\sigma /2}$, when $0<\sigma <2$. We deduce regularity estimates on Hölder, Lipschitz and Zygmund spaces. Finally, we obtain the pointwise integro-differential formula for the operator. Our method is based on the semigroup language approach.

18 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

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