The nonlocal boundary value problems for differential operator equations of second order with dependent coefficients are studied. The principal parts of the differential operators generated by these problems are non-selfadjoint. Several conditions for the maximal regularity and the Fredholmness in Banach-valued Lp-spaces of these problems are given. By using these results, the maximal regularit...

The theory of the nonlocal linear boundary value problems is still on the level of examples. Any attempt to encompass them by a unified scheme sticks upon the lack of general methods. Here we are to outline an algebraic approach to linear nonlocal boundary value problems. It is based on the notion of convolution of linear operator and on operational calculus on it. Our operators are right inver...

In this article we present the first results on domain decomposition methods for nonlocal operators. We present a nonlocal variational formulation for these operators and establish the well-posedness of associated boundary value problems, proving a nonlocal Poincaré inequality. To determine the conditioning of the discretized operator, we prove a spectral equivalence which leads to a mesh size ...

We consider the numerical solution of nonlocal constrained value problems associated with linear nonlocal diffusion and nonlocal peridynamic models. Two classes of discretization methods are presented, including standard finite element methods and quadrature based finite difference methods. We discuss the applicability of these approaches to nonlocal problems having various singular kernels and...

Abstract. We develop a calculus for nonlocal operators that mimics Gauss’ theorem and the Green’s identities of the classical vector calculus. The operators we define do not involve the derivatives. We then apply the nonlocal calculus to define variational formulations of nonlocal “boundaryvalue” problems that mimic the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for second-order scalar elliptic partial dif...

A method used recently to obtain a discrete formalism for classical fields with nonlocal actions preserving chiral symmetry and uniqueness of fermion fields yields a discrete version of Huygens’ principle with free discrete propagators that recover their continuum forms in certain limit.

Abstract. In this paper we present the first results on substructuring methods for nonlocal operators, specifically, an instance of the nonlocal p-Laplace operator. We present a nonlocal variational formulation of this operator, proving a nonlocal Poincaré inequality and upper bound to establish a spectral equivalence. We then introduce a nonlocal two-domain variational formulation utilizing no...