Balayages on excessive measures, their representation and the quasi-Lindelöf property (Q1376533)

Let \(Exc\) be the set of excessive measures associated with a submarkovian resolvent on a Lusin measurable space. The authors study the balayage operation on \(Exc\). A map on \(Exc\) is called a balayage if it is additive, increasing, continuous in order form below, idempotent and contractive. They prove that for any balayage \(B\) on \(Exc\) and an excessive measure \(m\) there exists a basic set \(A\) satisfying \(B\xi =\left( B^{A}\right) ^{\ast }\xi \) for any \(\xi \in Exc\) with \(\xi \ll m\). Moreover, the set \(A\) is unique up to an \(m\)-polar set. The authors also give several equivalent characterizations of the \(m\)-quasi-Lindelöf property for an excessive measure \(m\). For example, the \(m\)-quasi-Lindelöf property holds for any \( m\in Exc\) if and only if for any balayage \(B\) there exists a nearly Borel basic set \(A\) such that \(B=\left( B^{A}\right) ^{\ast }\). The authors verify an analog of Hunt's balayage duality theorem the probabilistic version of which was obtained by \textit{P. J. Fitzsimmons} and \textit{R. K. Getoor} [Math. Ann. 301, 751-762 (1995; Zbl 0818.60067)].