Jump-type Hunt processes generated by lower bounded semi-Dirichlet forms (Q414292)

The article stands in the long tradition of papers which deal with the close relationship between Dirichlet forms and Markov processes which was first discovered by M. Fukushima: let \(E\) be a locally compact separable metric space and \(m\) be a positive Radon measure on it. Given a nonnegative function \(k\) defined on \(E \times E\) off the diagonal whose anti-symmetric part is assumed to be less singular than the symmetric part, the authors construct an associated regular lower bounded semi-Dirichlet form \(\eta \) on \(L^{2}(E; m)\). This semi-Dirichlet form produces a Hunt process \(X^{0}\) on the space \(E\) whose jump behaviour is governed by \(k\). For an arbitrary open subset \(D \subset E\), they also construct a Hunt process \(X^{D,0}\) on \(D\) in an analogous manner. When \(D\) is relatively compact, the authors show that \(X^{D,0}\) is censored, that is, it admits no killing inside \(D\) and is killed only when the path approaches the boundary. In the particular case when \(E\) is the \(d\)-dimensional Euclidean space and \(m\) is the Lebesgue measure, a typical example of \(X^{0}\) is the stable-like process which was first constructed by R. F. Bass. This process is also identified with the solution of a martingale problem up to an \(\eta \)-polar set of starting points. Approachability to the boundary \(\partial D\) in finite time of its censored process \(X^{D,0}\) on a bounded open subset \(D\) is examined in terms of the polarity of \(\partial D\) for the symmetric stable processes with indices that bound the variable exponent \(\alpha (x)\).