Strict Decomposition of Diffusions Associated to Degenerate (Sub)-Elliptic Forms
Jiyong Shin
2018, v.24, Issue 4, 695-714
ABSTRACT
For a given strongly local Dirichlet form with possibly degenerate symmetric (sub)-elliptic matrix, we identify a Hunt process (associated to the Dirichlet form) with a weak solution to the corresponding stochastic differential equation starting from all points in $\R^d$. More precisely, using heat kernel estimates, stochastic calculus, and Dirichlet form theory, we obtain the pointwise existence of a weak solution to the stochastic differential equation which has possibly unbounded and discontinuous drift. We also present some conditions that the weak solution becomes a pathwise unique strong solution.
Keywords: subelliptic operators, intrinsic metric, strong existence, Fukushima decomposition, degenerate forms
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