Unavoidable collections of balls for processes with isotropic unimodal Green function

DOI10.1142/9789814596534_0012zbMATH Open1342.60069arXiv1403.0076OpenAlexW2103358925MaRDI QIDQ2800239FDOQ2800239

Authors: Wolfhard Hansen 

Publication date: 15 April 2016

Published in: Festschrift Masatoshi Fukushima (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let us suppose that we have a right continuous Markov semigroup on $R^d$, $dge1$, such that its potential kernel is given by convolution with a function $G_0=g(|cdot|)$, where $g$ is decreasing, has a mild lower decay property at zero, and a very weak decay property at infinity. This captures not only the Brownian semigroup (classical potential theory) and isotropic $alpha$-stable semigroups (Riesz potentials), but also more general isotropic L'evy processes, where the characteristic function has a certain lower scaling property, and various geometric stable processes. There always exists a corresponding Hunt process. A subset $A$ of $R^d$ is called unavoidable, if the process hits $A$ with probability $1$, wherever it starts. It is known that, for any locally finite union of pairwise disjoint balls $B(z,r_z)$, $zinZ$, which is unavoidable, $su{m}_{zinZ}g(|z|)/g(r_z)=infty$. The converse is proven assuming, in addition, that, for some $varepsilon>0$, $|z-z^{\prime }|gevarepsilon|z|(g(|z|)/g(r_z){)}^{1/d}$, whenever $z,z^{\prime }inZ$, $ze{z}^{\prime }$. It also holds, if the balls are regularly located, that is, if their centers keep some minimal mutual distance, each ball of a certain size intersects $Z$, and $r_z=g(phi(|z|))$, where $phi$ is a decreasing function. The results generalize and, exploiting a zero-one law, simplify recent work by A. Mimica and Z. Vondracek.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0076

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov semigroupGreen functionHunt processgeometric stable processesunavoidable ball collectionsLévy processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Markov semigroups and applications to diffusion processes (47D07) Stable stochastic processes (60G52)

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