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From Lévy-Type Processes to Parabolic SPDEs

Birkhäuser
  • Studies invariance and comparison principles for parabolic SPDEs in a very general framework beyond the classical setting
  • Presents an extensive introduction to Lévy processes, including the different constructions
  • Provides properties of Feller processes as space inhomogeneous processes that behave locally like Lévy processes

Part of the book series: Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona (ACMBIRK)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. An Introduction to Lévy and Feller Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6
    2. Orientation

      • René Schilling
      Pages 7-11
    3. Lévy Processes

      • René Schilling
      Pages 13-16
    4. Examples

      • René Schilling
      Pages 17-25
    5. On the Markov Property

      • René Schilling
      Pages 27-33
    6. A Digression: Semigroups

      • René Schilling
      Pages 35-40
    7. The Generator of a Lévy Process

      • René Schilling
      Pages 41-48
    8. Construction of Lévy Processes

      • René Schilling
      Pages 49-54
    9. Two Special Lévy Processes

      • René Schilling
      Pages 55-61
    10. Random Measures

      • René Schilling
      Pages 63-72
    11. A Digression: Stochastic Integrals

      • René Schilling
      Pages 73-85
    12. From Lévy to Feller Processes

      • René Schilling
      Pages 87-97
    13. Symbols and Semimartingales

      • René Schilling
      Pages 99-107
    14. Dénouement

      • René Schilling
      Pages 109-125
  3. Invariance and Comparison Principles for Parabolic Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-132
    2. White Noise

      • Davar Khoshnevisan
      Pages 133-149
    3. Lévy Processes

      • Davar Khoshnevisan
      Pages 151-165
    4. SPDEs

      • Davar Khoshnevisan
      Pages 167-181
    5. An Invariance Principle for Parabolic SPDEs

      • Davar Khoshnevisan
      Pages 183-193

About this book

This volume presents the lecture notes from two courses given by Davar Khoshnevisan and René Schilling, respectively, at the second Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis.

René Schilling’s notes are an expanded version of his course on Lévy and Lévy-type processes, the purpose of which is two-fold: on the one hand, the course presents in detail selected properties of the Lévy processes, mainly as Markov processes, and their different constructions, eventually leading to the celebrated Lévy-Itô decomposition. On the other, it identifies the infinitesimal generator of the Lévy process as a pseudo-differential operator whose symbol is the characteristic exponent of the process, making it possible to study the properties of Feller processes as space inhomogeneous processes that locally behave like Lévy processes. The presentation is self-contained, and includes dedicated chapters that review Markov processes, operator semigroups, random measures, etc.

Inturn, Davar Khoshnevisan’s course investigates selected problems in the field of stochastic partial differential equations of parabolic type. More precisely, the main objective is to establish an Invariance Principle for those equations in a rather general setting, and to deduce, as an application, comparison-type results. The framework in which these problems are addressed goes beyond the classical setting, in the sense that the driving noise is assumed to be a multiplicative space-time white noise on a group, and the underlying elliptic operator corresponds to a generator of a Lévy process on that group. This implies that stochastic integration with respect to the above noise, as well as the existence and uniqueness of a solution for the corresponding equation, become relevant in their own right. These aspects are also developed and supplemented by a wealth of illustrative examples.


Reviews

“The presentation also includes materials reviewing the classical theory of Markov processes, operator semigroups and random measures, which makes the notes self-contained and an excellent introductory material to the theory of  Lévy and Feller processes. ... It is nice to read and it provides exhaustive treatments of the topics.” (Nikola Sandrić, zbMATH 1382.60005, 2018)

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Matemàtiques, Bellaterra, Spain

    Frederic Utzet

  • Departament de Matematiques, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Departament de Matematiques, Bellaterra, Spain

    Lluis Quer-Sardanyons

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Davar Khoshnevisan

  • Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Fachrichtung Mathematik TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    René Schilling

About the editors

Davar Khoshnevisan is Professor of Mathematics at The University of Utah.

René L. Schilling is Professor of Probability at Technische Universität Dresden.

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Softcover Book USD 39.99
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