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Continuous flows driving Markov processes and multiplicative $L^p$-semigroups

Probability 2024-11-15 v1

Abstract

We develop a method of driving a Markov processes through a continuous flow. In particular, at the level of the transition functions we investigate an approach of adding a first order operator to the generator of a Markov process, when the two generators commute. A relevant example is a measure-valued superprocess having a continuous flow as spatial motion and a branching mechanism which does not depend on the spatial variable. We prove that any flow is actually continuous in a convenient topology and we show that a Markovian multiplicative semigroup on an Lp space is generated by a continuous flow, completing the answer to the question whether it is enough to have a measurable structure, like a C0-semigroup of Markovian contractions on an LpL^p-space with no fixed topology, in order to ensure the existence of a right Markov process associated to the given semigroup. We extend from bounded to unbounded functions the weak generator (in the sense of Dynkin) and the corresponding martingale problem

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@article{arxiv.2411.09407,
  title  = {Continuous flows driving Markov processes and multiplicative $L^p$-semigroups},
  author = {Lucian Beznea and Mounir Bezzarga and Iulian Cimpean},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.09407},
  year   = {2024}
}
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