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Zhen-Qing Chen

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Periodic homogenization of non-symmetric Lévy-type processes

In this paper, we study homogenization problem for strong Markov processes on $\R^d$ having infinitesimal generators $$ \sL f(x)=\int_{\R^d}\left(f(x+z)-f(x)-\langle \nabla f(x), z\rangle \I_{\{|z|\le 1\}} \right) k(x,z)\, Π(dz) +\langle b(x), \nabla f(x) \rangle, \quad f\in C^2_b (\R^d) $$ in periodic media, where $Π$ is a non-negative measure on $\R^d$ that does not charge the origin $0$, satisfies $\int_{\R^d} (1 \wedge |z|^2)\, Π(dz)<\infty$, and can be singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure on $\R^d$. Under a proper scaling, we show the scaled processes converge weakly to Lévy processes on $\R^d$. The results are a counterpart of the celebrated work \cite{BLP,Bh} in the jump-diffusion setting. In particular, we completely characterize the homogenized limiting processes when $b(x) $ is a bounded continuous multivariate 1-periodic $\R^d$-valued function, $k(x,z)$ is a non-negative bounded continuous function that is multivariate 1-periodic in both $x$ and $z$ variables, and, in spherical coordinate $z=(r, θ) \in \R_+\times \bS^{d-1}$, $$ \I_{\{|z|>1\}}\,Π(dz) = \I_{\{ r>1\}} \varrho_0(dθ) \, \frac{ dr }{r^{1+α}} $$ with $α\in (0,\infty)$ and $\varrho_0$ being any finite measure on the unit sphere $\bS^{d-1}$ in $\R^d$. Different phenomena occur depending on the values of $α$; there are five cases: $α\in (0, 1)$, $α=1$, $α\in (1, 2)$, $α=2$ and $α\in (2, \infty)$.

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Stability of parabolic Harnack inequalities for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms

In this paper, we establish stability of parabolic Harnack inequalities for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms on metric measure spaces under general volume doubling condition. We obtain their stable equivalent characterizations in terms of the jumping kernels, variants of cutoff Sobolev inequalities, and Poincaré inequalities. In particular, we establish the connection between parabolic Harnack inequalities and two-sided heat kernel estimates, as well as with the Hölder regularity of parabolic functions for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms.

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Homogenization of symmetric stable-like processes in stationary ergodic medium

This paper studies homogenization of symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms with $α$-stable-like jumping kernels in one-parameter stationary ergodic environment. Under suitable conditions, we establish homogenization results and identify the limiting effective Dirichlet forms explicitly. The coefficients of the jumping kernels of Dirichlet forms and symmetrizing measures are allowed to be degenerate and unbounded; and the coefficients in the effective Dirichlet forms can be degenerate.

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Hölder regularity and gradient estimates Hölder regularity and gradient estimates for SDEs driven by cylindrical $α$-stable processes

We establish Hölder regularity and gradient estimates for the transition semigroup of the solutions to the following SDE: $$ {\rm d} X_t=σ(t, X_{t-}){\rm d} Z_t+b (t, X_t){\rm d} t,\ \ X_0=x\in{\mathbb R}^d, $$ where $( Z_t)_{t\geq 0}$ is a $d$-dimensional cylindrical $α$-stable process with $α\in (0, 2)$, $σ(t, x):{\mathbb R}_+\times{\mathbb R}^d\to{\mathbb R}^d\otimes{\mathbb R}^d$ is bounded measurable, uniformly nondegenerate and Lipschitz continuous in $x$ uniformly in $t$, and $b (t, x):{\mathbb R}_+\times{\mathbb R}^d\to{\mathbb R}^d$ is bounded $β$-Hölder continuous in $x$ uniformly in $t$ with $β\in[0,1]$ satisfying $α+β>1$. Moreover, we also show the existence and regularity of the distributional density of $X (t, x)$. Our proof is based on Littlewood-Paley's theory.

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Time fractional equations and probabilistic representation

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of solutions for general fractional-time parabolic equations of mixture type, and their probabilistic representations in terms of the corresponding inverse subordinators with or without drifts. An explicit relation between occupation measure for Markov processes time-changed by inverse subordinator in open sets and that of the original Markov process in the open set is also given.

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Heat kernel estimates for general symmetric pure jump Dirichlet forms

In this paper, we consider the following symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms of pure jump type on metric measure space $(M,d,μ)$: $$\mathcal{E}(f,g)=\int_{M\times M} (f(x)-f(y))(g(x)-g(y))\,J(dx,dy),$$ where $J(dx,dy)$ is a symmetric Radon measure on $M\times M\setminus {\rm diag}$ that may have different scalings for small jumps and large jumps. Under general volume doubling condition on $(M,d,μ)$ and some mild quantitative assumptions on $J(dx, dy)$ that are allowed to have light tails of polynomial decay at infinity, we establish stability results for two-sided heat kernel estimates as well as heat kernel upper bound estimates in terms of jumping kernel bounds, the cut-off Sobolev inequalities, and the Faber-Krahn inequalities (resp.\ the Poincaré inequalities). We also give stable characterizations of the corresponding parabolic Harnack inequalities.

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Heat kernel estimates and parabolic Harnack inequalities for symmetric Dirichlet forms

In this paper, we consider the following symmetric Dirichlet forms on a metric measure space $(M,d,μ)$: $$\mathcal{E}(f,g) = \mathcal{E}(^{(c)}(f,g)+\int_{M\times M} (f(x)-f(y))(g(x)-g(y))\,J(dx,dy),$$ where $\mathcal{E}(^{(c)}$ is a strongly local symmetric bilinear form and $J(dx,dy)$ is a symmetric Random measure on $M\times M$. Under general volume doubling condition on $(M,d,μ)$ and some mild assumptions on scaling functions, we establish stability results for upper bounds of heat kernel (resp.\ two-sided heat kernel estimates) in terms of the jumping kernels, the cut-off Sobolev inequalities, and the Faber-Krahn inequalities (resp.\ the Poincaré inequalities). We also obtain characterizations of parabolic Harnack inequalities. Our results apply to symmetric diffusions with jumps even when the underlying spaces have walk dimensions larger than $2$.

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Time Fractional Poisson Equations: Representations and Estimates

In this paper, we study existence and uniqueness of strong as well as weak solutions for general time fractional Poisson equations. We show that there is an integral representation of the solutions of time fractional Poisson equations with zero initial values in terms of semigroup for the infinitesimal spatial generator ${\cal L}$ and the corresponding subordinator associated with the time fractional derivative. This integral representation has an integral kernel $q(t, x, y)$, which we call the fundamental solution for the time fractional Poisson equation, if the semigrou for ${\cal L}$ has an integral kernel. We further show that $q(t, x, y)$ can be expressed as a time fractional derivative of the fundamental solution for the homogenous time fractional equation under the assumption that the associated subordinator admits a conjugate subordinator. Moreover, when the Laplace exponent of the associated subordinator satisfies the weak scaling property and its distribution is self-decomposable, we establish two-sided estimates for the fundamental solution $q(t,x, y)$ through explicit estimates of transition density functions of subordinators.

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Heat kernel for non-local operators with variable order

Let $α(x)$ be a measurable function taking values in $ [α_1,α_2]$ for $0<\A_1\le \A_2<2$, and $κ(x,z)$ be a positive measurable function that is symmetric in $z$ and bounded between two positive constants. Under a uniform Hölder continuous assumptions on $α(x)$ and $x\mapsto κ(x,z)$, we obtain existence, upper and lower bounds, and regularity properties of the heat kernel associated with the following non-local operator of variable order $$ \LL f(x)=\int_{\R^d}\big(f(x+z)-f(x)-\langle\nabla f(x), z\rangle \I_{\{|z|\le 1\}}\big) \frac{κ(x,z)}{|z|^{d+α(x)}}\,dz. $$ In particular, we show that the operator $\LL$ generates a conservative Feller process on $\R^d$ having the strong Feller property, which is usually assumed a priori in the literature to study analytic properties of $\LL$ via probabilistic approaches. Our near-diagonal estimates and lower bound estimates of the heat kernel depend on the local behavior of index function $α(x)$, when $α(x)\equiv \A\in(0,2)$, our results recover some results by Chen and Kumagai (2003) and Chen and Zhang (2016).

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Propagation of regularity in $L^p$-spaces for Kolmogorov type hypoelliptic operators

Consider the following Kolmogorov type hypoelliptic operator $$ \mathscr L_t:=\mbox{$\sum_{j=2}^n$}x_j\cdot\nabla_{x_{j-1}}+{\rm Tr} (a_t \cdot\nabla^2_{x_n}), $$ where $n\geq 2$, $x=(x_1,\cdots,x_n)\in(\mathbb R^d)^n =\mathbb R^{nd}$ and $a_t$ is a time-dependent constant symmetric $d\times d$-matrix that is uniformly elliptic and bounded.. Let $\{\mathcal T_{s,t}; t\geq s\}$ be the time-dependent semigroup associated with $\mathscr L_t$; that is, $\partial_s {\mathcal T}_{s, t} f = - {\mathscr L}_s {\mathcal T}_{s, t}f$. For any $p\in(1,\infty)$, we show that there is a constant $C=C(p,n,d)>0$ such that for any $f(t, x)\in L^p(\mathbb R \times \mathbb R^{nd})=L^p(\mathbb R^{1+nd})$ and every $λ\geq 0$, $$ \left\|Δ_{x_j}^{{1}/{(1+2(n-j)})}\int^{\infty}_0 e^{-λt} {\mathcal T}_{s, s+t }f(t+s, x)dt\right\|_p\leq C\|f\|_p,\quad j=1,\cdots, n, $$ where $\|\cdot\|_p$ is the usual $L^p$-norm in $L^p(\mathbb R^{1+nd}; d s\times d x)$. To show this type of estimates, we first study the propagation of regularity in $L^2$-space from variable $x_n$ to $x_1$ for the solution of the transport equation $\partial_t u+\sum_{j=2}^nx_j\cdot\nabla_{x_{j-1}} u=f$.

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Properties of Switching Jump Diffusions: Maximum Principles and Harnack Inequalities

This work examines a class of switching jump diffusion processes. The main effort is devoted to proving the maximum principle and obtaining the Harnack inequalities. Compared with the diffusions and switching diffusions, the associated operators for switching jump diffusions are non-local, resulting in more difficulty in treating such systems. Our study is carried out by taking into consideration of the interplay of stochastic processes and the associated systems of integro-differential equations.

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Recurrence and Ergodicity for A Class of Regime-Switching Jump Diffusions

This work develops asymptotic properties of a class of switching jump diffusion processes. The processes under consideration may be viewed as a number of jump diffusion processes modulated by a random switching mechanism. The underlying processes feature in the switching process depends on the jump diffusions. In this paper, conditions for recurrence and positive recurrence are derived. Ergodicity is examined in detail. Existence of invariant probability measures is proved.

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Small time asymptotics for Brownian motion with singular drift

We establish a small time large deviation principle and a Varadhan type asymptotics for Brownian motion with singular drift on $\bR^d$ with $d\geq 3$ whose infinitesimal generator is $\frac12 Δ+ μ\cdot \nabla$, where each $μ_i$ of $μ= (μ_1, \cdots, μ_d)$ is a measure in some suitable Kato class.

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Stability of heat kernel estimates for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms

In this paper, we consider symmetric jump processes of mixed-type on metric measure spaces under general volume doubling condition, and establish stability of two-sided heat kernel estimates and heat kernel upper bounds. We obtain their stable equivalent characterizations in terms of the jumping kernels, variants of cut-off Sobolev inequalities, and the Faber-Krahn inequalities. In particular, we establish stability of heat kernel estimates for $α$-stable-like processes even with $α\ge 2$ when the underlying spaces have walk dimensions larger than $2$, which has been one of the major open problems in this area.

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Heat kernels for time-dependent non-symmetric stable-like operators

When studying non-symmetric nonlocal operators $$ {\cal L} f(x) = \int_{{\bf R}^d} \left( f(x+z)-f(x)-\nabla f(x)\cdot z 1_{\{|z|\leq 1\}} \right) \frac{κ(x, z)}{|z|^{d+α}} d z , $$ where $0<α<2$ and $κ(x, z)$ is a function on ${\bf R}^d\times {\bf R}^d$ that is bounded between two positive constants, it is customary to assume that $κ(x, z)$ is symmetric in $z$. In this paper, we study heat kernel of ${\cal L}$ and derive its two-sided sharp bounds without the symmetric assumption $κ(x,z)=κ(x,-z)$. In fact, we allow the kernel $κ$ to be time-dependent and also derive gradient estimate when $β\in(0\vee (1-α),1)$ as well as fractional derivative estimate of order $θ\in(0,(α+β)\wedge 2)$ for the heat kernel, where $β$ is the Hölder index of $x\mapstoκ(x,z)$. Moreover, when $α\in(1,2)$, the drift perturbation with drift in Kato's class is also considered. As an application, when $κ(x,z)=κ(z)$ does not depend on $x$, we show the boundedness of nonlocal Riesz's transorfmation: for any $p>2d/(d+2α)$, $$ \| {\cal L}^{1/2}f\|_p\asymp \|Γ(f)^{1/2}\|_p, $$ where $Γ(f):=\frac{1}{2}{\cal L} (f^2)-f {\cal L} f$ is the carré du champ operator associated with ${\cal L}$, and ${\cal L}^{1/2}$ is the square root operator of ${\cal L}$ defined by using Bochner's subordination. Here $\asymp$ means that both sides are comparable up to a constant multiple.

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Well-posedness of supercritical SDE driven by Lévy processes with irregular drifts

In this paper, we study the following time-dependent stochastic differential equation (SDE) in ${\bf R}^d$: $$ d X_{t}= σ_t(X_{t-}) d Z_t + b_t(X_{t})d t, \quad X_{0}=x\in {\bf R}^d, $$ where $Z$ is a $d$-dimensioanl nondegenerate $α$-stable-like process with $α\in(0,2)$ (including cylindrical case), and uniform in $t\geq 0$, $x\mapsto σ_t(x): {\bf R}^d\to {\bf R}^d\otimes {\bf R}^d$ is Lipchitz and uniformly elliptic and $x\mapsto b_t (x)$ is $β$-order Hölder continuous with $β\in(1-α/2,1)$. Under these assumptions, we show the above SDE has a unique strong solution for every starting point $x \in {\bf R}^d$. When $σ_t (x)={\bf I}_{d\times d}$, the $d\times d$ identity matrix, our result in particular gives an affirmative answer to the open problem of Priola (2015).

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Heat kernel estimates for time fractional equations

In this paper, we establish existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to general time fractional equations and give their probabilistic representations. We then derive sharp two-sided estimates for fundamental solutions of a family of time fractional equations in metric measure spaces.

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Elliptic Harnack inequalities for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms

We study relations and characterizations of various elliptic Harnack inequalities for symmetric non-local Dirichlet forms on metric measure spaces. We allow the scaling function be state-dependent and the state space possibly disconnected. Stability of elliptic Harnack inequalities is established under certain regularity conditions and implication for a priori Hölder regularity of harmonic functions is explored. New equivalent statements for parabolic Harnack inequalities of non-local Dirichlet forms are obtained in terms of elliptic Harnack inequalities.

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