scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1329688

Authors Laurent Saloff-Coste, A. Bendikov

Publication date 23 February 2000

dichotomy problem elliptic second-order differential operators Gaussian semigroups potential theory topological groups

Analysis on other specific Lie groups (43A80) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

Review text

The first part of the article is devoted to a survey of some results by J. Bliedtner, G. Forst, A. Bendikov, Ch. Berg, A. Bendikov and L. Saloff-Coste, where potential theory on topological groups, in particular the connection between harmonic sheaves, Gaussian semigroups and elliptic second-order differential operators, is studied. The second part of the article is devoted to the so-called dichotomy problem. The authors discuss a group analog of the well-known classical result: Any two Gaussian distributions on the Euclidean space are either equivalent or singular. -- The authors formulate some interesting open problems in the article. Referee's remark. It should be observed that in the article by \textit{G. M. Feldman} [Theory Probab. Appl. 23, 529-542 (1978; Zbl 0421.60009)] the following result concerning dichotomy problems on groups was proved: Let \(X\) be a connected LCA group either of finite dimension or infinite dimensional containing no subgroup topologically isomorphic to the one-dimensional torus. Then any two Gaussian distributions on \(X\) are either equivalent or singular. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0914.00060].

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