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Densities for SDEs driven by degenerate $\alpha$-stable processes

Probability 2014-09-04 v4 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this work, by using the Malliavin calculus, under H\"ormander's condition, we prove the existence of distributional densities for the solutions of stochastic differential equations driven by degenerate subordinated Brownian motions. Moreover, in a special degenerate case, we also obtain the smoothness of the density. In particular, we obtain the existence of smooth heat kernels for the following fractional kinetic Fokker-Planck (nonlocal) operator: Lb(α):=Δvα/2+vx+b(x,v)v,x,vRd,\mathscr{L}^{(\alpha)}_b:=\Delta^{\alpha/2}_{\mathrm{v}}+\mathrm {v}\cdot \nabla_x+b(x,\mathrm{v})\cdot \nabla_{\mathrm{v}},\qquad x,\mathrm{v}\in\mathbb{R}^d, where α(0,2)\alpha\in(0,2) and b:Rd×RdRdb:\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}^d is smooth and has bounded derivatives of all orders.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3565,
  title  = {Densities for SDEs driven by degenerate $\alpha$-stable processes},
  author = {Xicheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3565},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP900 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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