We show that under minimal assumptions, the intrinsic metric induced by a strongly local Dirichlet form induces a length space. The main input is a dual characterization of length spaces in terms of the property that the 1-Lipschitz functions form a sheaf.
Given the (canonical) Markov process associated with a sufficiently general semigroup (P t), we establish a result concerning the uniform completeness of a family of L 2-spaces naturally associated with the jumps of the process. An application of this result is presented.
This paper is devoted to the formulation and solution of a free boundary problem for the Poisson equation in the plane. The object is to seek a domain and a function defined in satisfying the given differential equation together with both Dirichlet and Neumann type data on the boundary of . The Neumann data are given in a manner which permits reformulation of the problem as a variational inequality. Under suitable hypotheses about the given data, it is shown that there exists a unique solution...
One gives a general definition of capacity which includes -capacity, extremal length and a quantity defined by N.G. Meyers.