Nonlinear commutators for the fractional p-Laplacian and applications

Abstract

We prove a nonlinear commutator estimate concerning the transfer of derivatives onto testfunctions for the fractional p-Laplacian. This implies that solutions to certain degenerate nonlocal equations are higher differentiable. Also, weakly fractional p-harmonic functions which a priori are less regular than variational solutions are in fact classical. As an application we show that sequences of uniformly bounded ns-harmonic maps converge strongly outside at most finitely many points.