Quasi-ergodicity of compact strong Feller semigroups on L²

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Authors: Kamil Kaleta, R. L. Schilling 

Publication date: 25 April 2023

Abstract: We study the quasi-ergodicity of compact strong Feller semigroups $U_t$, $t>0$, on $L^2(M,mu)$; we assume that $M$ is a locally compact Polish space equipped with a locally finite Borel measue $mu$. The operators $U_t$ are ultracontractive and positivity preserving, but not necessarily self-adjoint or normal. We are mainly interested in those cases where the measure $mu$ is infinite and the semigroup is not intrinsically ultracontractive. We relate quasi-ergodicity on $L^p(M,mu)$ and uniqueness of the quasi-stationary measure with the finiteness of the heat content of the semigroup (for large values of $t$) and with the progressive uniform ground state domination property. The latter property is equivalent to a variant of quasi-ergodicity which progressively propagates in space as $tuparrowinfty$; the propagation rate is determined by the decay of $U_{t}mathbb{1}_M(x)$. We discuss several applications and illustrate our results with examples. This includes a complete description of quasi-ergodicity for a large class of semigroups corresponding to non-local Schr"odinger operators with confining potentials.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35) One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations (47D06) Schrödinger and Feynman-Kac semigroups (47D08) Feller processes (60G53)

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