On Semi-Martingale Characterizations of Functionals of Symmetric Markov Processes

Masatoshi Fukushima (Kansai University)

Abstract


For a quasi-regular (symmetric) Dirichlet space $( {\cal E}, {\cal F})$ and an associated symmetric standard process $(X_t, P_x)$, we show that, for $u in {\cal F}$, the additive functional $u^*(X_t) - u^*(X_0)$ is a semimartingale if and only if there exists an ${\cal E}$-nest $\{F_n\}$ and positive constants $C_n$ such that $ \vert {\cal E}(u,v)\vert \leq C_n \Vert v\Vert_\infty, v \in {\cal F}_{F_n,b}.$ In particular, a signed measure resulting from the inequality will be automatically smooth. One of the variants of this assertion is applied to the distorted Brownian motion on a closed subset of $R^d$, giving stochastic characterizations of BV functions and Caccioppoli sets.

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Publication Date: October 6, 1999

DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v4-55

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