Dirichlet problems for elliptic Waldenfels operators and Feller semigroups
摘要
This paper is devoted to a careful and accessible exposition of the real and functional analytic methods for the problem of construction of strong Markov processes on a bounded domain in Euclidean space with boundary. Our approach is distinguished by the extensive use of the ideas and techniques characteristic of the recent developments in the theory of A. P. Calderón and A. Zygmund of singular integral operators with non-smooth kernels. We construct Feller semigroups with Dirichlet condition for elliptic Waldenfels integro-differential operators with discontinuous coefficients. Intuitively, we construct a Feller semigroup corresponding to such a diffusion phenomenon that a Markovian particle moves both by continuous paths and by jumps in the state space until it dies at the time when it reaches the boundary. This paper will lead to a deep insight into the study of elliptic boundary value problems for elliptic Waldenfels integro-differential operators with discontinuous coefficients in the theory of partial differential equations. The author declares no conflict of interest to disclose.