Global regularity results for the fractional heat equation and application to a class of non-linear KPZ problems

Abstract

In the first part of this paper, we prove the global regularity, in an adequate parabolic Bessel-Potential space and then in the corresponding parabolic fractional Sobolev space, of the unique solution to following fractional heat equation $ w_t+(-\Delta)^sw= h\;;\; w(x,t)=0 \text{ in } \; (\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\Omega)\times(0,T)\;;\; w(x,0)=w_0(x) \; \text{in}\; \Omega$, where $\Omega$ is an open bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^N$. The proof is based on a new pointwise estimate on the fractional gradient of the corresponding kernel. Moreover, we establish the compactness of $(w_0,h)\mapsto w$. As a majeur application, in the second part , we establish existence and regularity of solutions to a class of Kardar--Parisi--Zhang equations with fractional diffusion and a nonlocal gradient term. Additionally, several auxiliary results of independent interest are obtained.