On the generalized Feynman-Kac transformation for nearly symmetric Markov processes

TL;DR

This paper studies the strong continuity of a generalized Feynman-Kac semigroup associated with nearly symmetric Markov processes, establishing conditions under which the semigroup is strongly continuous in L^2 space.

Contribution

It provides a characterization of strong continuity for the generalized Feynman-Kac semigroup in terms of lower semi-boundedness of a related form, extending results to processes with differential structures.

Findings

Strong continuity is equivalent to lower semi-boundedness of the form Q^u.

The semigroup is strongly continuous if a certain exponential bound on P^u_t holds.

Results extend to processes with differential structure without the finiteness assumption on J_1.

Abstract

Suppose $X$ is a right process which is associated with a non-symmetric Dirichlet form $(\mathcal{E},D(\mathcal{E}))$ on $L^{2}(E;m)$. For $u\in D(\mathcal{E})$, we have Fukushima's decomposition: $\tilde{u}(X_{t})-\tilde{u}(X_{0})=M^{u}_{t}+N^{u}_{t}$. In this paper, we investigate the strong continuity of the generalized Feynman-Kac semigroup defined by $P^{u}_{t}f(x)=E_{x}[e^{N^{u}_{t}}f(X_{t})]$. Let $Q^{u}(f,g)=\mathcal{E}(f,g)+\mathcal{E}(u,fg)$ for $f,g\in D(\mathcal{E})_{b}$. Denote by $J_1$ the dissymmetric part of the jumping measure $J$ of $(\mathcal{E},D(\mathcal{E}))$. Under the assumption that $J_1$ is finite, we show that $(Q^{u},D(\mathcal{E})_{b})$ is lower semi-bounded if and only if there exists a constant $\alpha_0\ge 0$ such that $\|P^{u}_{t}\|_2\leq e^{\alpha_0 t}$ for every $t>0$. If one of these conditions holds, then $(P^{u}_{t})_{t\geq0}$ is strongly continuous on $L^{2}(E;m)$. If $X$ is equipped with a differential structure, then this result also holds without assuming that $J_1$ is finite.