On higher order extensions for the fractional Laplacian

Abstract

The technique of Caffarelli and Silvestre, characterizing the fractional Laplacian as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a function U satisfying an elliptic equation in the upper half space with one extra spatial dimension, is shown to hold for general positive, non-integer orders of the fractional Laplace operator, by showing an equivalence between the H^s norm on the boundary and a suitable higher-order seminorm of U.