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The Positive Maximum Principle on Symmetric Spaces

Functional Analysis 2019-03-06 v2

Abstract

We investigate the Courr\`{e}ge theorem in the context of linear operators AA that satisfy the positive maximum principle on a space of continuous functions over a symmetric space. Applications are given to Feller--Markov processes. We also introduce Gangolli operators, which satisfy the positive maximum principle, and generalise the form associated with the generator of a L\'{e}vy process on a symmetric space. When the space is compact, we show that Gangolli operators are pseudo--differential operators having scalar symbols.

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@article{arxiv.1902.03836,
  title  = {The Positive Maximum Principle on Symmetric Spaces},
  author = {David Applebaum and Trang Le Ngan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03836},
  year   = {2019}
}
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