English

Neumann semigroup, subgraph convergence, form uniqueness, stochastic completeness and the Feller property

Functional Analysis 2023-10-24 v1 Probability

Abstract

We study heat kernel convergence of induced subgraphs with Neumann boundary conditions. We first establish convergence of the resulting semigroups to the Neumann semigroup in 2\ell^2. While convergence to the Neumann semigroup always holds, convergence to the Dirichlet semigroup in 2\ell^2 turns out to be equivalent to the coincidence of the Dirichlet and Neumann semigroups while convergence in 1\ell^1 is equivalent to stochastic completeness. We then investigate the Feller property for the Neumann semigroup via generalized solutions and give applications to graphs satisfying a condition on the edges as well as birth-death chains.

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@article{arxiv.2310.14927,
  title  = {Neumann semigroup, subgraph convergence, form uniqueness, stochastic completeness and the Feller property},
  author = {Matthias Keller and Florentin Münch and Radosław K. Wojciechowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.14927},
  year   = {2023}
}