On The Existence Of Feller Semigroups With Boundary Conditions (memoirs Of The American Mathematical Society)

This monograph provides a careful and accessible exposition of functional analytic methods in stochastic analysis. The author focuses on the relationship among three subjects in analysis: Markov processes, Feller semigroups, and elliptic boundary value problems. The approach here is distinguished by the author's extensive use of the theory of partial differential equations. Filling a mathematical gap between textbooks on Markov processes and recent developments in analysis, this work describes a powerful method capable of extensive further development. The book would be suitable as a textbook in a one-year, advanced graduate course on functional analysis and partial differential equations, with emphasis on their strong interrelations with probability theory. This paper is devoted to the functional analytic approach to the problem of construction of Feller semigroups with Ventcel' (Wentzell) boundary conditions. This paper considers the non-transversal case and solves from the viewpoint of functional analysis the problem of construction of Feller semigroups for elliptic Waldenfels operators. Intuitively, our result may be stated as follows: One can construct a Feller semigroup corresponding to such a diffusion phenomenon that a Markovian particle moves both by jumps and continuously in the state space until it "dies" at which time it reaches the set where the absorption phenomenon occurs A monograph that covers functional analytic methods in stochastic analysis. It focuses on the relationship among three subjects in analysis: Markov processes, Feller semigroups, and elliptic boundary value problems. It presents an approach that is distinguished by the author's use of the theory of partial differential equations.