Local Boundedness of a Direction Dependent Double Phase Nonlocal Elliptic Equation
Hamid El Bahja
TL;DR
This work addresses local boundedness for weak solutions to a direction-dependent, anisotropic, nonlocal double-phase elliptic equation with exponents $(s_i,p)$ and $(t_i,q)$. It develops anisotropic fractional Sobolev spaces and tail notions, proving a Sobolev–Poincaré embedding and a localized Poincaré inequality to support energy estimates. A nonlocal Caccioppoli inequality is established and combined with a De Giorgi–type iteration to prove that weak solutions are locally bounded under natural relations among the exponents and a tail condition. The results advance regularity theory for anisotropic, nonlocal, double-phase problems, with local boundedness shown but local continuity left as an open problem; tail behavior and directional interactions are central to the analysis.
Abstract
This paper investigates the local boundedness of weak solutions to a direction-dependent double-phase nonlocal elliptic equation. By employing refined energy estimates and De Giorgi-type techniques, we establish the local boundedness of these solutions.
