TY - JOUR
T1 - On a Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn Inequality for the Regional Fractional Laplacian
AU - Jin , Tianling
AU - Kriventsov , Dennis
AU - Xiong , Jingang
JO - Annals of Applied Mathematics
VL - 3
SP - 363
EP - 393
PY - 2021
DA - 2021/09
SN - 37
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aam.OA-2021-0005
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aam/19851.html
KW - Rayleigh-Faber-Krahn inequality, regional fractional Laplacian, first eigenvalue.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">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$$\left\{\iint_{\{u&gt;0\}\times\{u&gt;0\}}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^2}{|x-y|^{n+2\sigma}}dxdy:u\in H^{\sigma}(\mathbb{R}^n), \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}u^2=1, |\{u&gt;0\}|\le 1\right\}$$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.</p>