We consider the Cauchy problem posed in the whole space for the following nonlocal heat equation: ut = J ∗u−u , where J is a symmetric continuous probability density. Depending on the tail of J , we give a rather complete picture of the problem in optimal classes of data by: (i) estimating the initial trace of (possibly unbounded) solutions; (ii) showing existence and uniqueness results in a su...

We apply nonlocal symmetry-like operators to systems of two first and two second-order ordinary differential equations to seek reduction to quadratures. The reduction of order of such systems is carried out with the help of analytic continuation of scalar equations in the complex plane. Examples are taken from the literature. Precisely it is shown how the reduction to quadratures of a system of...

In this paper we study numerical approximations of the nonlocal p−Laplacian type diffusion equation, ut(t, x) = ∫ Ω J(x− y)|u(t, y)− u(t, x)|p−2(u(t, y)− u(t, x)) dy. First, we find that a semidiscretization in space of this problem gives rise to an ODE system whose solutions converge uniformly to the continuous one as the mesh size goes to zero. Moreover, the semidiscrete approximation shares ...