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We study the problem of existence, uniqueness and regularity of probabilistic solutions of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations involving operators corresponding to regular (nonsymmetric) Dirichlet…

Semi-Lagrangian methods have traditionally been developed in the framework of hyperbolic equations, but several extensions of the Semi-Lagrangian approach to diffusion and advection--diffusion problems have been proposed recently. These…

Using results from our companion article [arXiv:1112.4824v2] on a Schauder approach to existence of solutions to a degenerate-parabolic partial differential equation, we solve three intertwined problems, motivated by probability theory and…

Given a domain G, a reflection vector field d(.) on the boundary of G, and drift and dispersion coefficients b(.) and \sigma(.), let L be the usual second-order elliptic operator associated with b(.) and \sigma(.). Under suitable…

We present a method of solving a nonlinear Dirichlet problem with discontinuous boundary data and we give a probabilistic representation of the solution using the nonlocal branching process associated with the nonlinear term of the…

We consider the Dirichlet problem on general, possibly nonsmooth bounded domain, for elliptic linear equation with uniformly elliptic divergence form operator. We investigate carefully the relationship between weak, soft and the…

In this paper, we use the theory of symmetric Dirichlet forms to give a probabilistic interpretation of Calder\'{o}n's inverse conductivity problem in terms of reflecting diffusion processes and their corresponding boundary trace processes.

Two frameworks that have been used to characterize reflected diffusions include stochastic differential equations with reflection and the so-called submartingale problem. We introduce a general formulation of the submartingale problem for…

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We study translation-invariant integrodifferential operators that generate L\'{e}vy processes. First, we investigate different notions of what a solution to a nonlocal Dirichlet problem is and we provide the classical representation formula…

We exhibit conditions under which the flow of marginal distributions of a discontinuous semimartingale $\xi$ can be matched by a Markov process, whose infinitesimal generator is expressed in terms of the local characteristics of $\xi$. Our…

We study diffusion processes and stochastic flows which are time-changed random perturbations of a deterministic flow on a manifold. Using non-symmetric Dirichlet forms and their convergence in a sense close to the Mosco-convergence, we…

We present a way of defining the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator on general Hilbert spaces using a pair of operators for which each one's adjoint is formally the negative of the other. In particular, we define an abstract analogue of trace…

We study parabolic operators H = $\partial$t -- div $\lambda$,x A(x, t)$\nabla$ $\lambda$,x in the parabolic upper half space R n+2 + = {($\lambda$, x, t) : $\lambda$ > 0}. We assume that the coefficients are real, bounded, measurable,…

The aim of this paper is two-fold. On one hand, we will study the distorted Brownian motion on $\mathbb{R}$, i.e. the diffusion process $X$ associated with a regular and strongly local Dirichlet form obtained by the closure of…