Dirichlet heat kernel estimates for fractional Laplacian with gradient perturbation

Abstract

Suppose that $d\geq2$ and $α\in(1,2)$. Let D be a bounded $C^{1,1}$ open set in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and b an $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued function on $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose components are in a certain Kato class of the rotationally symmetric α-stable process. In this paper, we derive sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for $\mathcal{L}^b=Δ^{α/2}+b\cdot\nabla$ in D with zero exterior condition. We also obtain the boundary Harnack principle for $\mathcal{L}^b$ in D with explicit decay rate.