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Liouville property, Wiener's test and unavoidable sets for Hunt processes

Analysis of PDEs 2015-01-28 v3

Abstract

Let (X,W)(X,\mathcal W) be a balayage space, 1W1\in \mathcal W, or - equivalently - let W\mathcal W be the set of excessive functions of a Hunt process on a locally compact space XX with countable base such that W\mathcal W separates points, every function in W\mathcal W is the supremum of its continuous minorants and there exist strictly positive continuous u,vWu,v\in \mathcal W such that u/v0u/v\to 0 at infinity. We suppose that there is a Green function G>0G>0 for XX, a metric ρ\rho on XX and a decreasing function g ⁣:[0,)(0,]g\colon[0,\infty)\to (0,\infty] having the doubling property such that GgρG\approx g\circ\rho. Assuming that the constant function 11 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 AA in XX is unavoidable, that is, if the process hits AA with probability one, wherever it starts. An application yields that locally finite unions of pairwise disjoint balls B(z,rz)B(z,r_z), zZz\in Z, which have a certain separation property with respect to a suitable measure λ\lambda on XX are unavoidable if and only if, for some/any point x0Xx_0\in X, the series zZg(ρ(x0,z))/g(rz)\sum_{z\in Z} g(\rho(x_0,z))/g(r_z) 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}
}
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