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Boundary Harnack principle for $\Delta + \Delta^{\alpha/2}$

Probability 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

For d1d\geq 1 and α(0,2)\alpha \in (0, 2), consider the family of pseudo differential operators {Δ+bΔα/2;b[0,1]}\{\Delta+ b \Delta^{\alpha/2}; b\in [0, 1]\} on Rd\R^d that evolves continuously from Δ\Delta to Δ+Δα/2\Delta + \Delta^{\alpha/2}. In this paper, we establish a uniform boundary Harnack principle (BHP) with explicit boundary decay rate for nonnegative functions which are harmonic with respect to Δ+bΔα/2\Delta +b \Delta^{\alpha/2} (or equivalently, the sum of a Brownian motion and an independent symmetric α\alpha-stable process with constant multiple b1/αb^{1/\alpha}) in C1,1C^{1, 1} open sets. Here a "uniform" BHP means that the comparing constant in the BHP is independent of b[0,1]b\in [0, 1]. Along the way, a uniform Carleson type estimate is established for nonnegative functions which are harmonic with respect to Δ+bΔα/2\Delta + b \Delta^{\alpha/2} in Lipschitz open sets. Our method employs a combination of probabilistic and analytic techniques.

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@article{arxiv.0908.1559,
  title  = {Boundary Harnack principle for $\Delta + \Delta^{\alpha/2}$},
  author = {Zhen-Qing Chen and Panki Kim and Renming Song and Zoran Vondraček},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.1559},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages, no figure

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