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Exit densities of Super--Brownian motion as extreme X-harmonic functions

Probability 2019-10-22 v2

Abstract

Let XX be a super-Brownian motion (SBM) defined on a domain ERnE\subset R^n and (XD)(X_D) be its exit measures indexed by sub-domains of EE. The relationship between the equation 1/2Δu=2u21/2 \Delta u=2 u^2 and Super-Brownian motion (SBM) is analogous to the relationship between Brownian motion and the Laplace's equation, and substantial progress has been made on the study of the solutions of this semi-linear p.d.e. exploring this analogy. An area that remains to be explored is Martin boundary theory. Martin boundary in the semi-linear case is defined as the convex set of extreme XX-harmonic functions which are functions on the space of finite measures supported in a domain EE of RdR^d and characterized by a mean value property with respect to the Super-Brownian law. So far no probabilistic construction of Martin boundary is known. In this paper, we consider a bounded smooth domain DD, and we investigate exit densities of SBM, a certain family of XX harmonic functions, HνH^{\nu}, indexed by finite measures ν\nu on D\partial{D}, These densities were first introduced by E.B. Dynkin and also identified by T.Salisbury and D. Sezer as the extended X-harmonic functions corresponding to conditioning SBM on its exit measure XDX_D being equal to ν\nu. Hν(μ)H^{\nu}(\mu) can be thought as the analogue of the Poisson kernel for Brownian motion. It is well known that Poisson kernel for a smooth domain DD is equivalent to the so called Martin kernel, the class of extreme harmonic functions for DD. We show that a similar result is true for Super-Brownian motion as well, that is HνH^{\nu} is extreme for almost all ν\nu with respect to a certain measure.

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@article{arxiv.1305.1351,
  title  = {Exit densities of Super--Brownian motion as extreme X-harmonic functions},
  author = {A. Deniz Sezer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1351},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

There is a mistake in one of the proofs