On subharmonicity for symmetric Markov processes

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Abstract: We establish the equivalence of the analytic and probabilistic notions of subharmonicity in the framework of general symmetric Hunt processes on locally compact separable metric spaces, extending an earlier work of the first named author on the equivalence of the analytic and probabilistic notions of harmonicity. As a corollary, we prove a strong maximum principle for locally bounded finely continuous subharmonic functions in the space of functions locally in the domain of the Dirichlet form under some natural conditions.


The equivalence of the analytic and probabilistic definitions for subharmonicity is established in the framework of general symmetric Hunt processes on locally compact separable metric spaces. This extends a similar result (for harmonicity), obtained by \textit{Z.-Q. Chen} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, No. 10, 3497--3510 (2009; Zbl 1181.60118)]. As a corollary, a strong maximum principle is proved for locally bounded finely continuous subharmonic functions in the space of functions which are locally in the domain of the Dirichlet form.











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