Higher integrability for nonlinear nonlocal equations with irregular kernel

Abstract

We prove a higher regularity result for weak solutions to nonlinear nonlocal equations along the integrability scale of Bessel potential spaces $H^{s,p}$ under a mild continuity assumption on the kernel. By embedding, this also yields regularity in Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces $W^{s,p}$. Our approach is based on a characterization of Bessel potential spaces in terms of a certain nonlocal gradient-type operator and a perturbation approach commonly used in the context of local elliptic equations in divergence form.