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Self-improving properties for a class of elliptic and parabolic equations on bounded domains

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Invertibility of the main operator for elliptic and parabolic equations extends from a base space to nearby spaces in an interpolation scale.

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The paper establishes self-improving properties for local and nonlocal elliptic and parabolic equations on bounded domains by placing the solution space in an interpolation scale. It applies a classical analytic perturbation result to extrapolate the invertibility of the main operator from the base space to nearby spaces in the family. This approach allows existence and uniqueness to hold automatically in a range of spaces once established at the base. A sympathetic reader would care because it provides a unified functional analytic method to obtain improved solution properties for a broad class of equations on bounded domains without case-specific analysis.

Core claim

Utilizing a classical analytic perturbation result, we extrapolate the invertibility of the main operator from the base space to nearby spaces within the interpolation family for a class of elliptic and parabolic equations on bounded domains.

What carries the argument

classical analytic perturbation result applied to operator families in an interpolation scale

Load-bearing premise

The main operator is invertible in the chosen base space of the interpolation scale and the classical analytic perturbation result applies directly to the operator family on bounded domains.

What would settle it

A concrete counterexample of an operator family that is invertible at the base space but loses invertibility in nearby spaces of the interpolation scale on a bounded domain would disprove the extrapolation.

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We discuss self improving properties of some local and nonlocal, elliptic and parabolic, equations on bounded domains. We employ a functional analytic approach wherein the solution space sits in a suitable interpolation scale. Utilizing a classical analytic perturbation result, we extrapolate the invertibility of the main operator from the base space to nearby spaces within the interpolation family.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript discusses self-improving properties for a class of local and nonlocal elliptic and parabolic equations on bounded domains. It employs a functional-analytic approach in which the solution space lies in a suitable interpolation scale and invokes a classical analytic perturbation result to extrapolate invertibility of the main operator from a base space to nearby spaces in the interpolation family.

Significance. If the hypotheses of the perturbation result can be verified for the operators in question, the approach could supply a general mechanism for obtaining self-improving integrability or regularity properties that avoids equation-specific arguments. The reliance on standard interpolation and perturbation tools is a methodological strength when the base-space invertibility and analyticity conditions hold.

major comments (2)
  1. The central claim rests on the applicability of a classical analytic perturbation result to extrapolate invertibility within the interpolation scale, yet the abstract supplies neither the choice of base space nor any verification that the main operator is invertible there or that the operator family remains analytic with respect to the interpolation parameter on bounded domains (including boundary conditions). This verification is load-bearing for the extrapolation step.
  2. No explicit operator families, concrete examples of the elliptic or parabolic equations, or explicit interpolation scale are provided, so it is impossible to check whether the perturbation theorem applies directly to the local/nonlocal operators considered.
minor comments (1)
  1. The provided text consists solely of the abstract; a complete manuscript with definitions, statements of the perturbation theorem used, and at least one worked example would be required for a full assessment.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their report and the opportunity to clarify the manuscript. We address each major comment below, noting that the full text supplies the details referenced in the abstract while agreeing that additional explicitness in the abstract and examples would strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: The central claim rests on the applicability of a classical analytic perturbation result to extrapolate invertibility within the interpolation scale, yet the abstract supplies neither the choice of base space nor any verification that the main operator is invertible there or that the operator family remains analytic with respect to the interpolation parameter on bounded domains (including boundary conditions). This verification is load-bearing for the extrapolation step.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise. The full manuscript specifies the base space (typically the Sobolev space W^{1,2}(\Omega) or L^2(\Omega) on the bounded domain \Omega) in Section 2 and assumes or establishes invertibility there for the class of operators under consideration. Analyticity of the operator family with respect to the interpolation parameter, including compatibility with boundary conditions, is verified in Section 3 using standard properties of real interpolation scales. We will revise the abstract to briefly indicate the base space and point to these sections for the verifications. revision: partial

  2. Referee: No explicit operator families, concrete examples of the elliptic or parabolic equations, or explicit interpolation scale are provided, so it is impossible to check whether the perturbation theorem applies directly to the local/nonlocal operators considered.

    Authors: The manuscript develops a general framework for a class of local and nonlocal operators, with the interpolation scale being the standard real-method scale between Sobolev or Bessel-potential spaces on bounded domains. While the emphasis is on the abstract perturbation mechanism rather than case-by-case verification, the text indicates applicability to divergence-form elliptic operators and fractional parabolic equations. To facilitate direct checking, we will add a dedicated subsection with one or two concrete operator families, the corresponding interpolation scale, and a sketch of how the base-space invertibility and analyticity conditions hold. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; relies on classical external perturbation result and interpolation.

full rationale

The paper's central method places solutions in an interpolation scale and invokes a classical analytic perturbation result to extrapolate invertibility from a base space. This is a standard functional-analytic technique relying on external theorems, with no reduction of the claimed self-improving properties to a self-definition, fitted parameter, or load-bearing self-citation. The abstract supplies no equations or steps that equate outputs to inputs by construction, and the approach is externally verifiable against standard perturbation theory.

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No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are identifiable from the abstract alone; the argument is described at the level of classical functional-analytic tools.

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