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Coercivity estimates for integro-differential operators

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We provide a general condition on the kernel of an integro-differential operator so that its associated quadratic form satisfies a coercivity estimate with respect to the \(H^s\)-seminorm.

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Luis Silvestre is supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1764285. Jamil Chaker is supported by DFG Forschungsstipendium through Project 410407063.

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Chaker, J., Silvestre, L. Coercivity estimates for integro-differential operators. Calc. Var. 59, 106 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-020-01764-y

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