English

Flows and invariance for elliptic operators

Analysis of PDEs 2009-04-01 v1

Abstract

Let SS be the submarkovian semigroup on L2(Rd)L_2({\bf R}^d) generated by a self-adjoint, second-order, divergence-form, elliptic operator HH with W1,W^{1,\infty} coefficients cklc_{kl}. Further let Ω\Omega be an open subset of Rd{\bf R}^d. Under mild conditions we prove that SS leaves L2(Ω)L_2(\Omega) invariant if, and only if, it is invariant under the flows generated by the vector fields l=1dckll\sum_{l=1}^d c_{kl} \partial_l for all kk.

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@article{arxiv.0903.5482,
  title  = {Flows and invariance for elliptic operators},
  author = {A. F. M. ter Elst and Derek W. Robinson and Adam Sikora},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5482},
  year   = {2009}
}
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