On symmetric linear diffusions

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Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to explore the structure of local and regular Dirichlet forms associated with symmetric linear diffusions. Let (mathcalE,mathcalF) be a regular and local Dirichlet form on L2(I,m), where I is an interval and m is a fully supported Radon measure on I. We shall first present a complete representation for (mathcalE,mathcalF), which shows that (mathcalE,mathcalF) lives on at most countable disjoint `effective' intervals with corresponding scale function on each interval, and any point outside these intervals is a trap of the linear diffusion. Furthermore, we shall give a necessary and sufficient condition for Ccinfty(I) being a special standard core of (mathcalE,mathcalF) and identify the closure of Ccinfty(I) in (mathcalE,mathcalF) when Ccinfty(I) is contained but not necessarily dense in mathcalF relative to the mathcalE1-norm. This paper is partly motivated by a result of [Hamza, 1975], stated in [FOT, Theorem 3.1.6] and provides a different point of view to this theorem. To illustrate our results, many examples are provided.












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