Parametrix method for the first hitting time of an elliptic diffusion with irregular coefficients.

In this article, we are interested in studying the transition density function of the couple given by the first hitting time of a fixed threshold by a one-dimensional uniformly elliptic diffusion process and the associated stopped process. Our strategy relies on the parametrix technique applied to the related semigroup. It notably allows us to extend standard PDEs results on Green and Poisson functions, see e.g. Garroni and Menaldi [Green functions for second order parabolic integro-differential problems, volume 275 of Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series, Longman Scientific & Technical, Harlow; copublished in the United States with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1992], by establishing the infinite expansion of the corresponding transition density for irregular coefficients, here bounded measurable drift coefficient and bounded η-Hölder-continuous diffusion coefficient. As a by-product, we establish some Gaussian upper estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]