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A Hausdorff measure classification of polar lateral boundary sets for superdiffusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2000

YUAN-CHUNG SHEU
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. e-mail: sheu@math.nctu.edu.tw

Abstract

Consider an (L, α)-superdiffusion X, 1 < α [les ] 2, in a smooth cylinder Q = ℝ+ × D. Where L is a uniformly elliptic operator on ℝ+ × ℝd and D is a bounded smooth domain in ℝd. Criteria for determining which (internal) subsets of Q are not hit by the graph [Gscr ] of X were established by Dynkin [5] in terms of Bessel capacity and according to Sheu [14] in terms of restricted Hausdorff dimension (partial results were also obtained by Barlow, Evans and Perkins [3]). While using Poisson capacity on the lateral boundary ∂Q of Q, Kuznetsov [10] recently characterized complete subsets of ∂Q which have no intersection with [Gscr ]. In this work, we examine the relations between Poisson capacity and restricted Hausdorff measure. According to our results, the critical restricted Hausdorff dimension for the lateral [Gscr ]-polarity is d − (3 − α)/(α − 1). (A similar result also holds for the case d = (3 − α)/(α − 1)). This investigation provides a different proof for the critical dimension of the boundary polarity for the range of X (as established earlier by Le Gall [12] for L = Δ, α = 2 and by Dynkin and Kuznetsov [7] for the general case).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The Cambridge Philosophical Society 2000

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