Harnack inequality for fractional Laplacian-type operators on hyperbolic spaces

Abstract: The Krylov--Safonov theory for fully nonlinear nonlocal operators on hyperbolic spaces of dimension three is established. Since the operators on hyperbolic spaces exhibit qualitatively different behavior than those on manifolds with nonnegative curvature, new scale functions are introduced which take the effect of negative curvature into account. The regularity theory in this work provides unified regularity results for fractional-order and second-order operators in the sense that the regularity estimates stay uniform as the fractional-order approaches 2. In the unified regularity theory, the asymptotic behavior of the normalizing constant for the fractional Laplacian plays a fundamental role. The dimension restriction has been imposed to compute the explicit value of this constant by using the Fourier analysis on hyperbolic spaces.