This is the first of two articles dealing with the equation in , with , where stands for the fractional Laplacian — the infinitesimal generator of a Lévy process. This equation can be realized as a local linear degenerate elliptic equation in together with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition on .In this first article, we establish necessary conditions on the nonlinearity f to admit certain type of solutions, with special interest in bounded increasing solutions in all of . These necessary conditions (which will be proven in a follow-up paper to be also sufficient for the existence of a bounded increasing solution) are derived from an equality and an estimate involving a Hamiltonian — in the spirit of a result of Modica for the Laplacian. Our proofs are uniform as , establishing in the limit the corresponding known results for the Laplacian.In addition, we study regularity issues, as well as maximum and Harnack principles associated to the equation.
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Cabré, Xavier; Sire, Yannick. Nonlinear equations for fractional Laplacians, I: Regularity, maximum principles, and Hamiltonian estimates. Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 31 (2014) pp. 23-53. doi : 10.1016/j.anihpc.2013.02.001. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPC_2014__31_1_23_0/
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