The integral fractional Laplacian of order $s \in (0,1)$ is a nonlocal operator. It known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit algebraic boundary singularity regardless domain regularity. This, in turn, deteriorates global regularity and as result convergence rate numerical solutions. For finite element discretizations, we derive local error estimates $H^s$...

An exact form of the local Whittle likelihood is studied with the intent of developing a general-purpose estimation procedure for the memory parameter (d) that does not rely on tapering or differencing prefilters. The resulting exact local Whittle estimator is shown to be consistent and to have the same N(0, 1 4 ) limit distribution for all values of d if the optimization covers an interval of ...