Boundary Value Problems (Jan 2019)
Some results on the eigenvalue problem for a fractional elliptic equation
Abstract
Abstract This paper deals with the eigenvalue problem for a fractional variable coefficients elliptic equation defined on a bounded domain. Compared to the previous work, we prove a quite different variational formulation of the first eigenvalue for the above problem. This allows us to give a variational proof of the fractional Faber–Krahn inequality by employing suitable rearrangement techniques.
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