Abstract: | This work contributes in two areas, with sharp results, to the current investigation of regularity of solutions of heat equations with a nonlocal operator P:(*) 1) For strongly elliptic pseudodifferential operators (ψdo's) P on of order , a symbol calculus on is introduced that allows showing optimal regularity results, globally over and locally over : for , . The are anisotropic Sobolev spaces of Bessel-potential type, and there is a similar result for Besov spaces.2) Let Ω be smooth bounded, and let P equal (), or its generalizations to singular integral operators with regular kernels, generating stable Lévy processes. With the Dirichlet condition , the initial condition , and , (*) has a unique solution with . Here if , and is contained in if , but contains nontrivial elements from if (where ). The interior regularity of u is lifted when f is more smooth. |