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Hunt's hypothesis (H) and the triangle property of the Green function

Analysis of PDEs 2014-11-12 v1

Abstract

Let XX be a locally compact abelian group with countable base and let W\mathcal W be a convex cone of positive numerical functions on XX which is invariant under the group action and such that (X,W)(X,\mathcal W) is a balayage space or (equivalently, if 1W1\in \mathcal W) such that W\mathcal W is the set of excessive functions of a Hunt process on XX, W\mathcal W separates points, every function in W\mathcal W is the supremum of its continuous minorants in W\mathcal W, and there exist strictly positive continuous u,vWu,v\in \mathcal W such that u/v0u/v\to 0 at infinity. Assuming that there is a Green function G>0G>0 for XX which locally satisfies the triangle inequality G(x,z)G(y,z)CG(x,y)G(x,z)\wedge G(y,z)\le C G(x,y) (true for many L\'evy processes), it is shown that Hunt's hypothesis (H) holds, that is, every semipolar set is polar.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2900,
  title  = {Hunt's hypothesis (H) and the triangle property of the Green function},
  author = {Wolfhard Hansen and Ivan Netuka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2900},
  year   = {2014}
}