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Liouville's theorems for L\'evy operators

Analysis of PDEs 2024-11-28 v2 Probability

Abstract

Let LL be a L\'evy operator. A function hh is said to be harmonic with respect to LL if Lh=0L h = 0 in an appropriate sense. We prove Liouville's theorem for positive functions harmonic with respect to a general L\'evy operator LL: such functions are necessarily mixtures of exponentials. For signed harmonic functions we provide a fairly general result, which encompasses and extends all Liouville-type theorems previously known in this context, and which allows to trade regularity assumptions on LL for growth restrictions on hh. Finally, we construct an explicit counterexample which shows that Liouville's theorem for signed functions harmonic with respect to a general L\'evy operator LL does not hold.

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@article{arxiv.2301.08540,
  title  = {Liouville's theorems for L\'evy operators},
  author = {Tomasz Grzywny and Mateusz Kwaśnicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08540},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

45 pages; minor revision

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