Feller semigroups, Dirchlet forms, and pseudo differential operators.
A linear Boltzmann equation is interpreted as the forward equation for the probability density of a Markov process on , where is the two-dimensional torus. Here is an autonomous reversible jump process, with waiting times between two jumps with finite expectation value but infinite variance. is an additive functional of , defined as , where for small . We prove that the rescaled process converges in distribution to a two-dimensional Brownian motion. As a consequence, the appropriately...
We consider a strong Markov process with killing and prove an approximation method for the distribution of the process conditioned not to be killed when it is observed. The method is based on a Fleming−Viot type particle system with rebirths, whose particles evolve as independent copies of the original strong Markov process and jump onto each others instead of being killed. Our only assumption is that the number of rebirths of the Fleming−Viot type system doesn’t explode in finite time almost surely...
We introduce a new transport distance between probability measures on that is built from a Lévy jump kernel. It is defined via a non-local variant of the Benamou–Brenier formula. We study geometric and topological properties of this distance, in particular we prove existence of geodesics. For translation invariant jump kernels we identify the semigroup generated by the associated non-local operator as the gradient flow of the relative entropy w.r.t. the new distance and show that the entropy is...
It is shown that the Hausdorff dimension of an invariant measure generated by a Poisson driven stochastic differential equation is greater than or equal to 1.
We consider the fractional Laplacian on an open subset in with zero exterior condition. We establish sharp two-sided estimates for the heat kernel of such a Dirichlet fractional Laplacian in open sets. This heat kernel is also the transition density of a rotationally symmetric -stable process killed upon leaving a open set. Our results are the first sharp twosided estimates for the Dirichlet heat kernel of a non-local operator on open sets.
We give sharp estimates for the transition density of the isotropic stable Lévy process killed when leaving a right circular cone.
Given a family of Lévy measures ν={ν(x, ⋅)}x∈ℝd, the present work deals with the regularity of harmonic functions and the Feller property of corresponding jump processes. The main aim is to establish continuity estimates for harmonic functions under weak assumptions on the family ν. Different from previous contributions the method covers cases where lower bounds on the probability of hitting small sets degenerate.
In this note I present the main results about the quantitative and qualitative propagation of chaos for the Boltzmann-Kac system obtained in collaboration with C. Mouhot in [33] which gives a possible answer to some questions formulated by Kac in [25]. We also present some related recent results about Kac’s chaos and Kac’s program obtained in [34, 23, 13] by K. Carrapatoso, M. Hauray, C. Mouhot, B. Wennberg and myself.