Almost minimizers for certain fractional variational problems

Seongmin Jeon, Arshak Petrosyan

Published 2019-05-28Version 1

In this paper we introduce a notion of almost minimizers for certain variational problems governed by the fractional Laplacian, with the help of the Caffarelli-Silvestre extension. In particular, we study almost fractional harmonic functions and almost minimizers for the fractional obstacle problem with zero obstacle. We show that for a certain range of parameters, almost minimizers are almost Lipschitz or $C^{1,\beta}$-regular.