Hitchhiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces

Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 521-573

  Di Nezza, Eleonora ^a   Palatucci, Giampiero ^a,b   Valdinoci, Enrico ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractional Laplacian; Fractional Sobolev spaces; Gagliardo norm; Nonlocal energy; Primary; Secondary; Sobolev embeddings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863469913     PISSN: 00074497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bulsci.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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