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An extension problem, trace Hardy and Hardy’s inequalities for the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator

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... The higher order local problem was considered in [12], where the diffusion term is given by ∆ m , m ∈ N. Fractional powers of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator, that is, (−∆ + 2x · ∇ + n) s were studied in [19]. ...
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