Localization and Locality for Resistance Forms

For a resistance form ${(X, \mathcal{D}(\varepsilon),\varepsilon)}For a resistance form (X, D(e),e){(X, \mathcal{D}(\varepsilon),\varepsilon)} and a point x₀ ? X{x_0 \in X} as boundary, on the space X₀:=X \{x₀}{X_0:=X {\setminus}\{x_0\}} we consider the Dirichlet space D_x0:={f ? D(e) | f(x₀)=0}{\mathcal{D}_{x_0}:=\{f\in\mathcal{D}(\varepsilon)\, |\, f(x_0)=0\}} and we develop a good potential theory. For any finely open subset D of X ₀ we consider a localized resistance form (D_{X0 \ D},e_D{\mathcal{D}_{X_0 {\setminus} D},\varepsilon_{D}}) where D_{X0 \ D}:={f ? D_x0 | f=0{\mathcal{D}_{X_0 {\setminus} D}:=\{f\in\mathcal{D}_{x_0}\, |\, f=0} on X₀ \ D}, e_D(f,g):=e(f,g){X_0 {\setminus} D\},\, \varepsilon_D(f,g):=\varepsilon(f,g)} for all f,g ? D_{X0 \ D}{f,g\in\mathcal{D}_{X_0 {\setminus} D}}. The main result is the equivalence between the local property of the resistance form and the sheaf property for the excessive elements on finely open sets.     

Excessive kernels and Revuz measures

We consider a proper submarkovian resolvent of kernels on a Lusin measurable space and a given excessive measure ξ. With every quasi bounded excessive function we associate an excessive kernel and the corresponding Revuz measure. Every finite measure charging no ξ–polar set is such a Revuz measure, provided the hypothesis (B) of Hunt holds. Under a weak duality hypothesis, we prove the Revuz formula and characterize the quasi boundedness and the regularity in terms of Revuz measures. We improve results of Azéma [2] and Getoor and Sharpe [20] for the natural additive functionals of a Borel right process. Received: 30 April 1997 / Revised version: 17 September 1999 /?Published online: 11 April 2000     

Fine Densities for Excessive Measures and the Revuz Correspondence

Suppose that U is the resolvent of a Borel right process on a Lusin space X. If is a U-excessive measure on X then we show by analytical methods that for every U-excessive measure with the Radon–Nikodym derivative d/d possesses a finely continuous version. (Fitzsimmons and Fitzsimmons and Getoor gave a probabilistic approach for this result.) We extend essentially a technique initiated by Mokobodzki and deepened by Feyel. The result allows us to establish a Revuz type formula involving the fine versions, and to study the Revuz correspondence between the -finite measures charging no set that is both -polar and -negligible (U being the potential component of ) and the strongly supermedian kernels on X. This is an analytic version of a result of Azéma, Fitzsimmons and Dellacherie, Maisonneuve and Meyer, in terms of additive functionals or homogeneous random measures. Finally we give an application to the context of the semi-Dirichlet forms, covering a recent result of Fitzsimmons.     

Sub-Markovian resolvents under weak duality hypothesis

 We study the weak duality between two sub-Markovian resolvents of kernels on a Lusin topological space with respect to a given measure m. Our frame covers the probabilistic context of two Borel Markov processes in weak duality. The main results are related to: the coincidence of the m-semipolar and m-cosemipolar sets, the Revuz correspondence between the measures charging no cofinely open m-polar set and the potential kernels associated with the homogeneous random measures of the process, the equivalence between smoothness and cosmoothness (a smooth measure is the Revuz measure of a continuous additive functional). We extend and improve results of R.M. Blumenthal-R.K. Getoor, J. Azéma, D. Revuz, J.B. Walsh, R.K. Getoor-M.J. Sharpe. Received: 24 July 2001 / Revised version: 29 December 2002 / Published online: 12 May 2003 Supported by the CNCSIS grant no. 33518/2002 (code 431), the CERES program of the Romanian Ministry of Ed. and Research, contract no. 152/2001 and the EURROMMAT program ICA1-CT-2000-70022 of the European Commission. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 60J40, 60J45, 60J55, 60J35, 31C15, 31C25, 31D05     

Feyel's Techniques on the Supermedian Functionals and Strongly Supermedian Functions

We study the strongly supermedian functions and the supermedian functionals associated with a submarkovian resolvent on a Lusin space. We extend results of D. Feyel and J. F. Mertens to a general right process. The existence of a positive potential replaces the usual hypothesis that the process possesses left limits in the space.     

Balayages on Excessive Measures,their Representation and the Quasi-Lindelöf Property

If Exc is the set of all excessive measures associated with a submarkovian resolvent on a Lusin measurable space and B is a balayage on Exc then we show that for any mExc there exists a basic set A (determined up to a m-polar set) such that B=(B^A)* for any Exc, m. The m-quasi-Lindelöf property (for the fine topology) holds iff for any B there exists the smallest basic set A as above. We characterize the case when any B is representable i.e. there exists a basic set such that B=(B^A)* on Exc.     

Smooth Measures and Regular Strongly Supermedian Kernels Generating Sub-Markovian Resolvents

In the context of a transient Borel right Markov process with a fixed excessive measure , we characterize the regular strongly supermedian kernels, producing smooth measures by the Revuz correspondence. In the case of the measures charging no -semipolar sets, this is the analytical counterpart of a probabilistic result of Revuz, Fukushima, and Getoor and Fitzsimmons, concerning the positive continuous additive functionals. We also consider the case of the measures charging no set that is both -polar and -negligible (U being the potential part of ), answering to a problem of Revuz.     

Quasi-boundedness and subtractivity; Applications to excessive measures

We study the quasi-boundedness and subtractivity in a general frame of cones of potentials (more precisely in H-cones). Particularly we show that the subtractive elements are strongly related to the existence of recurrent balayages. In the special case of excessive measures we improve results of P. J. Fitzsimmons and R. K. Getoor from [13], obtained with probabilistic methods.     

Hitting distributions domination and subordinate resolvents; an analytic approach

We give an analytic version of the well known Shih's theorem concerning the Markov processes whose hitting distributions are dominated by those of a given process. The treatment is purely analytic, completely different from Shih's arguments and improves essentially his result (in the case when the given processes are transient