Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

L. Gennaioli - M. Caselli

A new Duhamel-type principle with applications to geometric (in)equalities

created by gennaioli on 31 Mar 2026

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Inserted: 31 mar 2026
Last Updated: 31 mar 2026

Year: 2026

Abstract:

We introduce a simple new method, based on the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension and a Duhamel-type formula, to derive exact pointwise identities for fractional commutators and nonlinear compositions associated with the fractional Laplacian on general Riemannian manifolds. As applications, we obtain a pointwise fractional Leibniz rule, a fractional Bochner's formula with an explicit Ricci curvature term, apparently the first of this kind, and exact remainders in the Córdoba-Córdoba and Kato inequalities for the fractional Laplacian. All these formulas are new even in the Euclidean space.


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