Existence and probabilistic representation of the solutions of semilinear parabolic PDEs with fractional Laplacians

Abstract

We obtain existence results for the solution u of nonlocal semilinear parabolic PDEs on $${{\mathbb {R}}}^d$$ with polynomial nonlinearities in $$(u, \nabla u)$$ , using a tree-based probabilistic representation. This probabilistic representation applies to the solution of the equation itself, as well as to its partial derivatives by associating one of d marks to the initial tree branch. Partial derivatives are dealt with by integration by parts and subordination of Brownian motion. Numerical illustrations are provided in examples for the fractional Laplacian in dimension up to 10, and for the fractional Burgers equation in dimension two.