Positive Densities of Transition Probabilities of Diffusion Processes

V. I. Bogachev ; M. Röckner ; S. V. Shaposhnikov

Teoriâ veroâtnostej i ee primeneniâ, Tome 53 (2008) no. 2, pp. 213-239

Résumé

For diffusion processes in $\mathbf R^d$ with locally unbounded drift coefficients we obtain a sufficient condition for the strict positivity of transition probabilities. To this end, we consider parabolic equations of the form $\mathcal L^*\mu=0$ with respect to measures on $\mathbf R^d\times (0,1)$ with the operator $\mathcal L u:=\partial_t u+\partial_{x_i}(a^{ij}\partial_{x_j}u)+b^i\partial_{x_i}u$. It is shown that if the diffusion coefficient $A=(a^{ij})$ is sufficiently regular and the drift coefficient $b=(b^i)$ satisfies the condition $\exp(\kappa |b|^2)\in L_{\mathrm{loc}}^1(\mu)$, where the measure $\mu$ is nonnegative, then $\mu$ has a continuous density $\varrho(x,t)$ which is strictly positive for $t>\tau$ provided that it is not identically zero for $t\le\tau$. Applications are obtained to finite-dimensional projections of stationary distributions and transition probabilities of infinite-dimensional diffusions.

Détail

Keywords: density of transition probability, stationary distribution
Mots-clés : parabolic equation, infinite-dimensional diffusion.

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