Differential-Difference Elliptic Equations with Nonlocal Potentials in Half-Spaces

Abstract

We investigate the half-space Dirichlet problem with summable boundary-value functions for an elliptic equation with an arbitrary amount of potentials undergoing translations in arbitrary directions. In the classical case of partial differential equations, the half-space Dirichlet problem for elliptic equations attracts great interest from researchers due to the following phenomenon: the solutions acquire qualitative properties specific for nonstationary (more exactly, parabolic) equations. In this paper, such a phenomenon is studied for nonlocal generalizations of elliptic differential equations, more exactly, for elliptic differential-difference equations with nonlocal potentials arising in various applications not covered by the classical theory. We find a Poisson-like kernel such that its convolution with the boundary-value function satisfies the investigated problem, prove that the constructed solution is infinitely smooth outside the boundary hyperplane, and prove its uniform power-like decay as the timelike independent variable tends to infinity.

Keywords

• differential-difference equations
• nonlocal potential elliptic equations
• half-space Dirichlet problem
• summable boundary-value functions