The positive maximum principle on symmetric spaces (Q830361)

In their paper, the authors investigate the Courrège theorem in the context of linear operators which satisfy the positive maximum principle on a space of continuous functions over a symmetric space and apply the results to Feller-Markov processes. They also introduce Gangolli operators which satisfy the positive maximum principle and generalise the form associated with the generator of a Lévy process on a symmetric space. When the space is compact, it is shown that Gangolli operators are pseudo-differential operators having scalar symbols.