Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to extend some results of the potential theory of an elliptic operator to the fractional Laplacian (-Delta)(a/2), 0 < alpha < 2, in a bounded C-1,C-1 domain D in R-n. In particular, we introduce a new Kato class K-alpha (D) and we exploit the properties of this class to study the existence of positive solutions of some Dirichlet problems for the fractional Laplacian. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.