On the local property for positivity preserving coercive forms
On the local property for positivity preserving coercive forms
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论保存积极性的强制形式的局部属性
DOI:
10.1515/9783110880052.345
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发表时间:
1993
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0.3
通讯作者:
B. Schmuland
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作者:
B. Schmuland
We show that, under mild conditions, two well-known definitions for the local property of a Dirichlet form are equivalent. We also show that forms that come from differential operators are local. 1991 AMS Subject Classification: 31C25 The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between two different notions of locality that have appeared in the literature of Dirichlet forms. The first is a slightly modified version of the definition of locality found in the book of Bouleau and Hirsch [BH 91; Chapter I, Corollary 5.1.4], while the second comes from the book of Ma and Röckner [MR 92; Chapter V, Proposition 1.2]. But here we do not assume that the form satisfies any normal contraction property, but only that it is positivity preserving (see Definition 0.1 below). Let (E,F ,m) be a measure space, and suppose (E , D(E)) is a densely defined, closed, bilinear form on L2(E,F ,m). Following [MR 92], we call such a form (E , D(E)) coercive if E(u, u) ≥ 0 for all u ∈ D(E), and for some K ≥ 1 we have, |E(u, v)| ≤ KE1(u, u)E1(v, v) for all u, v ∈ D(E), (0.1) where we define E1(u, v) := E(u, v) + (u, v)L2(E;m). Definition 0.1. The following are various contraction properties that the form (E , D(E)) may satisfy: (C1) If u ∈ D(E), then u+ ∈ D(E) and E(u+, u−) ≤ 0. (C2) If u ∈ D(E), then u ∧ 1 ∈ D(E) and E(u ∧ 1, u− u ∧ 1) ≥ 0. (C3) If u ∈ D(E), then u ∧ 1 ∈ D(E) and E(u− u ∧ 1, u ∧ 1) ≥ 0. Condition (C1) is equivalent with the positivity of the associated semigroup (Tt)t≥0, (and hence also the dual semigroup (T̂t)t≥0); that is, for u ∈ L2 if 0 ≤ u, then 0 ≤ Ttu. Hence, a form (E , D(E)) satisfying (C1) is called positivity preserving. Condition (C2) is equivalent to the Markov property for (Tt)t≥0; that is, for u ∈ L2 if 0 ≤ u ≤ 1, then 0 ≤ Ttu ≤ 1, while condition (C3) is equivalent to the Markov property for the dual semigroup (T̂t)t≥0. We note that either of (C2) or (C3) implies (C1). A form (E , D(E))