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Publications and source records attributed to Zoran Vondracek.
Minimal thinness is a notion that describes the smallness of a set at a boundary point. In this paper, we provide tests for minimal thinness for a large class of subordinate killed Brownian motions in bounded C1,1 domains, C1,1 domains with compact complements and domains above graphs of bounded C1,1 functions.
In this paper we study a subordinate Brownian motion with a Gaussian component and a rather general discontinuous part. The assumption on the subordinator is that its Laplace exponent is a complete Bernstein function with a Lévy density satisfying a certain growth condition near zero. The main result is a boundary Harnack principle with explicit boundary decay rate for non-negative harmonic functions of the process in $C^{1,1}$ open sets. As a consequence of the boundary Harnack principle, we establish sharp two-sided estimates on the Green function of the subordinate Brownian motion in any bounded $C^{1,1}$ open set $D$ and identify the Martin boundary of $D$ with respect to the subordinate Brownian motion with the Euclidean boundary.
In this paper we prove the uniform boundary Harnack principle in general open sets for harmonic functions with respect to a large class of rotationally symmetric purely discontinuous Lévy processes.
We study minimal thinness in the half-space $H:=\{x=(\wt{x}, x_d):\, \wt{x}\in \R^{d-1}, x_d>0\}$ for a large class of rotationally invariant Lévy processes, including symmetric stable processes and sums of Brownian motion and independent stable processes. We show that the same test for the minimal thinness of a subset of $H$ below the graph of a nonnegative Lipschitz function is valid for all processes in the considered class. In the classical case of Brownian motion this test was proved by Burdzy.
The paper discusses and surveys some aspects of the potential theory of subordinate Brownian motion under the assumption that the Laplace exponent of the corresponding subordinator is comparable to a regularly varying function at infinity. This extends some results previously obtained under stronger conditions.
A subordinate Brownian motion is a Lévy process which can be obtained by replacing the time of the Brownian motion by an independent subordinator. The infinitesimal generator of a subordinate Brownian motion is $-ϕ(-Δ)$, where $ϕ$ is the Laplace exponent of the subordinator. In this paper, we consider a large class of subordinate Brownian motions without diffusion component and with $ϕ$ comparable to a regularly varying function at infinity. This class of processes includes symmetric stable processes, relativistic stable processes, sums of independent symmetric stable processes, sums of independent relativistic stable processes, and much more. We give sharp two-sided estimates on the Green functions of these subordinate Brownian motions in any bounded $κ$-fat open set $D$. When $D$ is a bounded $C^{1,1}$ open set, we establish an explicit form of the estimates in terms of the distance to the boundary. As a consequence of such sharp Green function estimates, we obtain a boundary Harnack principle in $C^{1,1}$ open sets with explicit rate of decay.
We consider a family of pseudo differential operators $\{Δ+ a^αΔ^{α/2}; a\in [0, 1]\}$ on $\R^d$ that evolves continuously from $Δ$ to $Δ+ Δ^{α/2}$, where $d\geq 1$ and $α\in (0, 2)$. It gives rise to a family of Lévy processes \{$X^a, a\in [0, 1]\}$, where $X^a$ is the sum of a Brownian motion and an independent symmetric $α$-stable process with weight $a$. Using a recently obtained uniform boundary Harnack principle with explicit decay rate, we establish sharp bounds for the Green function of the process $X^a$ killed upon exiting a bounded $C^{1,1}$ open set $D\subset\R^d$. As a consequence, we identify the Martin boundary of $D$ with respect to $X^a$ with its Euclidean boundary. Finally, sharp Green function estimates are derived for certain Lévy processes which can be obtained as perturbations of $X^a$.
We establish a boundary Harnack principle for a large class of subordinate Brownian motion, including mixtures of symmetric stable processes, in bounded $κ$-fat open set (disconnected analogue of John domains). As an application of the boundary Harnack principle, we identify the Martin boundary and the minimal Martin boundary of bounded $κ$-fat open sets with respect to these processes with their Euclidean boundary.
We study a general perturbed risk process with cumulative claims modelled by a subordinator with finite expectation, with the perturbation being a spectrally negative Levy process with zero expectation. We derive a Pollaczek-Hinchin type formula for the survival probability of that risk process, and give an interpretation of the formula based on the decomposition of the dual risk process at modified ladder epochs.