Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

C. Bjorland - L. Caffarelli - A. Figalli

Non-Local Tug-of-War and the Infinity Fractional Laplacian

created by figalli on 18 Apr 2011
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Inserted: 18 apr 2011
Last Updated: 12 aug 2024

Journal: Comm. Pure Appl. Math.
Year: 2012

Abstract:

Motivated by the classical ``tug-of-war'' game, we consider a ``non-local'' version of the game which goes as follows: at every step two players pick respectively a direction and then, instead of flipping a coin in order to decide which direction to choose and then moving of a fixed amount $\epsilon>0$ (as is done in the classical case), it is a $s$-stable Levy process which chooses at the same time both the direction and the distance to travel. Starting from this game, we heuristically we derive a deterministic non-local integro-differential equation that we call ``infinity fractional Laplacian''. We study existence, uniqueness, and regularity, both for the Dirichlet problem and for a double obstacle problem, both problems having a natural interpretation as ``tug-of-war'' games.


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