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A compactness of the Revuz map is established in the sense that the locally uniform convergence of a sequence of positive continuous additive functionals is derived in terms of their smooth measures. To this end, we first introduce a metric on the space of measures of finite energy integrals and show some structures of the metric. Then, we show the compactness and give some examples of positive continuous additive functionals that the convergence holds in terms of the associated smooth measures., Comment: 30 pages

This work is concerned with homogenization problems for elliptic equations of the type \[ \begin{cases} \mathfrak{L}_{\delta} u_{\delta} + \lambda u_{\delta} = f_{\delta} \qquad \text{in} \;\; D, \\ \qquad \quad \;\, u = 0 \qquad \, \text{on} \;\; \partial D, \end{cases} \] where $\delta > 0$, $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, $D$ is a bounded open set in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$, and $f_{\delta} \in H^{-1}(D)$. The operator $ \mathfrak{L}_{\delta} u = -{\rm div} \left( A^\delta \nabla u + C^\delta u \right) + B^\delta \nabla u +k^\delta u $ involved uniformly bounded diffusion coefficients $A^\delta$, where drifts $B^\delta$, $C^\delta$ and potential $k^\delta$ are possibly unbounded. An application to homogenization of the corresponding diffusion processes is also discussed., Comment: 38 pages

We consider Dynkin games for Markov processes associated with semi-Dirichlet forms. Dynkin games are the optimal stopping games introduced as the models of zero-sum games by two players. We prove that the solution to the certain variational inequality with two obstacles is the equilibrium price of the Dynkin game. Moreover, we obtain the saddle point of the game., Comment: 14 pages

Introducing the notion of extended Schr\"odinger spaces, we define the criticality and subcriticality of Schr\"odinger forms in the same manner as the recurrence and transience of Dirichlet forms, and give a sufficient condition for the subcriticality of Schr\"odinger forms in terms the bottom of spectrum. We define a subclass of Hardy potentials and prove that Schr\"odinger forms with potentials in this subclass are always critical, which leads us to optimal Hardy type inequality. We show that this definition of criticality and subcriticality is equivalent to that there exists an excessive function with respect to Schr\"odinger semigroup and its generating Dirichlet form through $h$-transform is recurrent and transient respectively. As an application, we can show the recurrence and transience of a family of Dirichlet forms by showing the criticality and subcriticaly of Schr\"odinger forms and show the other way around through $h$-transform, We give a such example with fractional Schr\"odinger operators with Hardy potential., Comment: 31 pages

In this short note we study homogenization of symmetric $d$-dimensional L\'evy processes. Homogenization of one-dimensional pure jump Markov processes has been investigated by Tanaka \emph{et al.} in 1992; their motivation was the work by Benssousan \emph{et al.}\ from 1975 on the homogenization of diffusion processes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We investigate a similar problem for a class of symmetric pure-jump L\'evy processes on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and we identify -- using Mosco convergence -- the limit process.

In this paper we shall prove the weak convergence of the associated diffusion processes of regular subspaces with monotone characteristic sets for a fixed Dirichlet form. More precisely, given a fixed 1-dimensional diffusion process and a sequence of its regular subspaces, if the characteristic sets of regular subspaces are decreasing or increasing, then their associated diffusion processes are weakly convergent to another diffusion process. This is an extended result of [13]., Comment: There are some overlaps with arXiv:1505.00451

We give sufficient conditions for Mosco convergences for the following three cases: symmetric locally uniformly elliptic diffusions, symmetric L\'evy processes, and symmetric jump processes in terms of the $L^1(\mathbb R;dx)$-local convergence of the (elliptic) coefficients, the characteristic exponents and the jump density functions,respectively. We stress that the global path properties of the corresponding Markov processes such as recurrence/transience, and conservativeness/explosion are not preserved under Mosco convergences and we give several examples where such situations indeed happen., Comment: 18 pages

Sufficient conditions for a symmetric jump-diffusion process to be conservative and recurrent are given in terms of the volume of the state space and the jump kernel of the process. A number of examples are presented to illustrate the optimality of these conditions; in particular, the situation is allowed to be that the state space is topologically disconnected but the particles can jump from a connected component to the other components., Comment: 22 pages

Let $E$ be a locally compact separable metric space and $m$ be a positive Radon measure on it. Given a nonnegative function $k$ defined on $E\times E$ off the diagonal whose anti-symmetric part is assumed to be less singular than the symmetric part, we construct an associated regular lower bounded semi-Dirichlet form $\eta$ on $L^2(E;m)$ producing a Hunt process $X^0$ on $E$ whose jump behaviours are governed by $k$. For an arbitrary open subset $D\subset E$, we also construct a Hunt process $X^{D,0}$ on $D$ in an analogous manner. When $D$ is relatively compact, we show that $X^{D,0}$ is censored in the sense that it admits no killing inside $D$ and killed only when the path approaches to the boundary. When $E$ is a $d$-dimensional Euclidean space and $m$ is the Lebesgue measure, a typical example of $X^0$ is the stable-like process that will be also identified with the solution of a martingale problem up to an $\eta$-polar set of starting points. Approachability to the boundary $\partial D$ in finite time of its censored process $X^{D,0}$ on a bounded open subset $D$ will be examined in terms of the polarity of $\partial D$ for the symmetric stable processes with indices that bound the variable exponent $\alpha(x)$., Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP633 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)