A priori estimates for higher-order fractional Laplace equations

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a priori estimates for the positive solutions to a higher-order fractional Laplace equation on a bounded domain by a blowing-up and rescaling argument. To overcome the technical difficulty due to the high-order and fractional order mixed operators, we divide the high-order fractional Laplacian equation into a system, and provide uniform estimates for each equation in the system. Finding a proper scaling parameter for the domain is the crux of rescaling argument to the above system, and the new idea is introduced in the rescaling proof, which may hopefully be applied to many other system problems. In order to derive a contradiction in the blowing-up proof, combining the moving planes method and suitable Kelvin transform, we prove a key Liouville-type theorem under a weaker regularity assumption in a half space.