Construction of \({\mathcal L}^{p}\)-strong Feller processes via Dirichlet forms and applications to elliptic diffusions (Q1950463)

Starting with a regular Dirichlet form (on a locally compact separable metric space) possessing specified regularity assumptions and using techniques in [\textit{S. Albeverio} et al., Contemp. Math. 317, 15--35 (2003; Zbl 1029.60063); \textit{J. M. N. Dohmann}, Forum Math. 17, No. 3, 343--359 (2005; Zbl 1069.60064)], the authors provide a general construction scheme for \({\mathcal L}^p\)-strong Feller processes. This process solves the corresponding martingale problem for all starting points from a known set, namely, the set where the regularity assumptions hold. This result is applied to construct elliptic diffusions having locally Lipschitz matrix coefficients and singular drifts on general open sets with absorption at the boundary. In this application, elliptic regularity results imply the desired regularity assumptions.