Liouville property, Wiener's test and unavoidable sets for Hunt processes
Abstract
Let be a balayage space, , or - equivalently - let be the set of excessive functions of a Hunt process on a locally compact space with countable base such that separates points, every function in is the supremum of its continuous minorants and there exist strictly positive continuous such that at infinity. We suppose that there is a Green function for , a metric on and a decreasing function having the doubling property such that . Assuming that the constant function is harmonic and balls are relatively compact, is is shown that every positive harmonic function is constant (Liouville property) and that Wiener's test at infinity shows, if a given set in is unavoidable, that is, if the process hits with probability one, wherever it starts. An application yields that locally finite unions of pairwise disjoint balls , , which have a certain separation property with respect to a suitable measure on are unavoidable if and only if, for some/any point , the series diverges. The results generalize and, exploiting a zero-one law for hitting probabilities, simplify recent work by S. Gardiner and M. Ghergu, A. Mimica and Z. Vondra\v cek, and the author.
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@article{arxiv.1409.7532,
title = {Liouville property, Wiener's test and unavoidable sets for Hunt processes},
author = {Wolfhard Hansen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7532},
year = {2015}
}