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Sharp two-sided Green function estimates for Dirichlet forms degenerate at the boundary

Probability 2022-09-27 v5

Abstract

In this paper we continue our investigation of the potential theory of Markov processes with jump kernels decaying at the boundary. To be more precise, we consider processes in R+d{\mathbb R}^d_+ with jump kernels of the form B(x,y)xydα{\mathcal B}(x,y) |x-y|^{-d-\alpha} and killing potentials κ(x)=cxdα\kappa(x)=cx_d^{-\alpha}, 0<α<20<\alpha<2. The boundary part B(x,y){\mathcal B}(x,y) is comparable to the product of three terms with parameters β1,β2\beta_1, \beta_2, β3\beta_3 and β4\beta_4 appearing as exponents in these terms. The constant cc in the killing term can be written as a function of α\alpha, B{\mathcal B} and a parameter p((α1)+,α+β1)p\in ((\alpha-1)_+, \alpha+\beta_1), which is strictly increasing in p,p, decreasing to 00 as p(α1)+p\downarrow (\alpha-1)_+ and increasing to \infty as pα+β1p\uparrow\alpha+\beta_1. We establish sharp two-sided estimates on the Green functions of these processes for all p((α1)+,α+β1)p\in ((\alpha-1)_+, \alpha+\beta_1) and all admissible values of β1,β2\beta_1, \beta_2, β3\beta_3 and β4\beta_4. Depending on the regions where β1\beta_1, β2\beta_2 and pp belong, the estimates on the Green functions are different. In fact, the estimates have three different forms depending on the regions the parameters belong to. As applications, we prove that the boundary Harnack principle holds in certain region of the parameters and fails in some other region of the parameters. Combined with the main results of \cite{KSV},we completely determine the region of the parameters where the boundary Harnack principle holds.

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@article{arxiv.2011.00234,
  title  = {Sharp two-sided Green function estimates for Dirichlet forms degenerate at the boundary},
  author = {Panki Kim and Renming Song and Zoran Vondraček},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00234},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Two typos corrected

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