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The linear integro-differential operators that we consider ''in this wiki'' are the generators of [[Levy processes]]. According to the Levy-Kintchine formula, they have the general form
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\[ Lu(x) = \mathrm{tr} \, A(x) \cdot D^2 u + b(x) \cdot \nabla u + c(x) u + d(x) + \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y) - u(x) - y \cdot \nabla u(x) \chi_{B_1}(y)) \, \mathrm{d} \mu_x(y) \]
where $A(x)$ is a nonnegative matrix for all $x$, and $\mu_x$ is a nonnegative measure for all $x$ satisfying
\[ \int_{\R^n} \min(y^2 , 1) \mathrm{d} \mu_x(y) < +\infty. \]
 
The above definition is very general. Many theorems, and in particular regularity theorems, require extra assumptions in the kernels $K$. These assumptions restrict the study to certain sub-classes of linear operators. The simplest of all is the [[fractional Laplacian]]. We list below several extra assumptions that are usually made.
 
== Absolutely continuous measure ==
 
In most cases, the nonnegative measure $\mu$ is assumed to be absolutely continuous: $\mathrm{d} \mu_x(y) = K(x,y) \mathrm{d}y$.
 
We keep this assumption in all the examples below.
 
== Purely integro-differential operator ==
 
In this case we neglect the local part of the operator
\[ Lu(x) = \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y) - u(x) - y \cdot \nabla u(x) \chi_{B_1}(y)) \, K(x,y) \mathrm d y. \]
 
== Symmetric kernels ==
If the kernel is symmetric $K(x,y) = K(x,-y)$, then we can remove the gradient term from the integral and replace the difference by a second order quotient.
 
In the purely integro-differentiable case, it reads as
\[ Lu(x) = \frac 12 \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y)+u(x+y)-2u(x)) \, K(x,y) \mathrm d y. \]
 
The second order incremental quotient is sometimes abbreviated by $\delta u(x,y) := (u(x+y)+u(x+y)-2u(x))$.
 
== Translation invariant operators ==
In this case, all coefficients are independent of $x$.
\[ Lu(x) = \mathrm{tr} \, A \cdot D^2 u + b \cdot \nabla u + c u + d + \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y) - u(x) - y \cdot \nabla u(x) \chi_{B_1}(y)) \, K(y) \mathrm{d}y. \]
 
== The fractional Laplacian ==
 
The [[fractional Laplacian]] is the simplest and most common purely integro-differential operator. It corresponds to a translation invariant operator for which $K(y)$ is radially symmetric and homogeneous.
 
\[ -(-\Delta)^{s/2} u(x) = C_{n,s} \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y)+u(x+y)-2u(x)) \frac{1}{|y|^{n+s}} \mathrm d y. \]
 
== Uniformly elliptic of order $s$ ==
 
This corresponds to the assumption that the kernel is comparable to the one of the fractional Laplacian of the same order.
\[ \frac {(2-s)\lambda}{|y|^{n+s}} \leq K(x,y) \leq \frac {(2-s)\Lambda}{|y|^{n+s}}. \]
 
The normalizing factor $(2-s)$ is a normalizing factor which is only important when $s$ approaches two.
 
An operator of variable order can be either one for which $s$ depends on $x$, or one for which there are two values $s_1<s_2$, one for the left hand side and another for the right hand side.
 
== Smoothness class $k$ of order $s$ ==
This class (sometimes denoted as $\mathcal L_k^s$) corresponds to kernels that are uniformly elliptic of order $s$ and, moreover, their derivatives are also bounded
\[ |\partial_y^r K(x,y)| \leq \frac {\Lambda}{|y|^{n+s+r}} \ \ \text{for all } r\leq k. \]
 
== Order strictly below one ==
 
If a non symmetric kernel $K$ satisfies the extra local integrability assumption
\[ \int_{\R^n} \min(|y|,1) K(x,y) \mathrm d y < +\infty, \]
then the extra gradient term is not necessary in order to define the operator.
 
\[ Lu(x) = \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y) - u(x)) \, K(x,y) \mathrm d y. \]
 
The modification in the integro-differential part of the operator becomes an extra drift term.
 
A uniformly elliptic operator of order $s<1$ satisfies this condition.
 
== Order strictly above one ==
 
If a non symmetric kernel $K$ satisfies the extra integrability assumption on its tail.
\[ \int_{\R^n} \min(|y|^2,|y|) K(x,y) \mathrm d y < +\infty, \]
then the gradient term in the integral can be taken global instead of being cut off in the unit ball.
 
\[ Lu(x) = \int_{\R^n} (u(x+y) - u(x) - y \cdot \nabla u(x)) \, K(x,y) \mathrm d y. \]
 
The modification in the integro-differential part of the operator becomes an extra drift term.
 
A uniformly elliptic operator of order $s>1$ satisfies this condition.
 
== Indexed by a matrix ==
In some cases, it is interesting to study a family of kernels $K$ that are indexed by a matrix. For example, given the matrix $A$, one can consider the kernel of order $s$:
\[ K_A(y) =  \frac{(2-s) \langle y , Ay \rangle}{|y|^{n+2+s}}. \]
This family of kernels has the outstanding property that the corresponding linear operator $L$ coincides with $Lu(x) = a_{ij} \partial_{ij}\left[(-\Delta)^{s-1} u \right] (x)$ for some coefficients $a_{ij}$.
 
= Second order elliptic operators as limits of purely integro-differential ones =
 
Given any bounded, even, positive function $a: \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}$, the family of operators
 
\[L_\sigma u(x) = (2-\sigma) \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} (u(x+y)+u(x-y)-2u(x))\frac{a(y)}{|y|^{n+\sigma}}dy,\;\; \sigma \in (0,2), \]
 
define in the limit $\sigma \to 2^-$ a second order linear elliptic operator (possibly degenerate). This can be checked for any fixed $C^2$ function $u$ by a straightforward computation using the second order Taylor expansion. A class of kernels that is big enough to recover all translation invariant elliptic operators of the form  $Lu(x) = Tr ( A \cdot D^2u(x) )$ is given by the kernels
 
\[ K_A(y) = (2-\sigma) \frac{1}{|Ay|^{n+\sigma}},\]
 
where $A$ is an invertible symmetric matrix.

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