Regularity and capacity for the fractional dissipative operator》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect J. Differential Equations 259 (2015) 3495–3519 /locate/jde Regularity and capacity for the fractional dissipative operator ✩ Renjin Jiang a , Jie Xiao b , Dachun Yang a,∗ , Zhichun Zhai c a School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex Systems, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100875, China b Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1C 5S7, Canada c Department of Mathematics and Statistics, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2, Canada Received 25 September 2013; revised 2 November 2014 Available online 23 June 2015 Abstract This paper is devoted to exploring some analytic–geometric properties of the regularity and capacity associated with the so-called fractional dissipative operator ∂t + (−)α , naturally establishing a diagonally sharp Hausdorff dimension estimate for the blow-up set of a weak solution to the fractional dissipative equation (∂t + (−)α )u(t, x) = F (t,x) subject to u(0,x) = 0. The methods used in this paper rely on effectively controlling the time-dependent non-local kernels and potentials with fractional order α ∈ (0, 1), dual representation of the capacity and Frostman type theorem from geometric measure theory. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. MSC: 35K05; 31C15 Keywords: Fractional dissipative equation/operator; Regularity; Capacity; Blow-up set; Hausdorff dimension ✩ Renjin Jiang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. ; Jie