Special Session 71: 

Mixed boundary conditions in a fractional eigenvalue problem

Maria Medina
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Chile
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Abstract:
In this talk we will analyze the non local problem \begin{equation*}\label{prob} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} (-\Delta)^{s}u&=&\lambda_1 u &\mbox{ in }\Omega,\\ u&=&0 &\mbox{ in }D,\\ \mathcal{N}_{s}u&=&0 &\mbox{ in }N, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $s\in (0,1)$, $\lambda_1$ is the first eigenvalue associated to the problem, $N$ and $D$ are two open sets of $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega$ of positive measure satisfying $$ D\cap N=\emptyset, \ \ \ \ \left | \mathbb R^N\setminus (\Omega\cup D \cup N)\right |=0, $$ and $\mathcal{N}_{s}u$ denotes the non local Neumann boundary condition of $u$. A natural question here is how the configuration of the sets $D$ and $N$ determines the behavior of $u$. Is it similar to the solution of the Dirichlet problem when $N$ is small? does it behave like the Neumann eigenfunction when $N$ is large? When $s=1$ and the boundary conditions are prescribed on $\partial\Omega$ it is known that $u$ behaves in very different ways depending on the size and the location of $D$ and $N$. As we will see, the fact that in the fractional case the boundary is the whole $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega$ completely changes the possible configurations of the sets (one can even have both sets of unbounded measure). The purpose of this talk will be to translate the notion of ``small boundary set and to analyze wether $D$ and $N$ can be prescribed to recover the classical results. \medskip This is a joint work with T. Leonori, I. Peral, A. Primo and F. Soria.