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Harnack inequality and Liouville-type theorems for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck and Kolmogorov operators

  • Received: 09 February 2020 Accepted: 14 April 2020 Published: 27 May 2020
  • We prove, with a purely analytic technique, a one-side Liouville theorem for a class of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators ${\mathcal L_0}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, as a consequence of a Liouville theorem at "$t = - \infty$" for the corresponding Kolmogorov operators ${\mathcal L_0} - \partial_t$ in $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$. In turn, this last result is proved as a corollary of a global Harnack inequality for non-negative solutions to $({\mathcal L_0} - \partial_t) u = 0$ which seems to have an independent interest in its own right. We stress that our Liouville theorem for ${\mathcal L_0}$ cannot be obtained by a probabilistic approach based on recurrence if $N>2$. We provide a self-contained proof of a Liouville theorem involving recurrent Ornstein--Uhlenbeck stochastic processes in the Appendix.

    Citation: Alessia E. Kogoj, Ermanno Lanconelli, Enrico Priola. Harnack inequality and Liouville-type theorems for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck and Kolmogorov operators[J]. Mathematics in Engineering, 2020, 2(4): 680-697. doi: 10.3934/mine.2020031

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  • We prove, with a purely analytic technique, a one-side Liouville theorem for a class of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators ${\mathcal L_0}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, as a consequence of a Liouville theorem at "$t = - \infty$" for the corresponding Kolmogorov operators ${\mathcal L_0} - \partial_t$ in $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$. In turn, this last result is proved as a corollary of a global Harnack inequality for non-negative solutions to $({\mathcal L_0} - \partial_t) u = 0$ which seems to have an independent interest in its own right. We stress that our Liouville theorem for ${\mathcal L_0}$ cannot be obtained by a probabilistic approach based on recurrence if $N>2$. We provide a self-contained proof of a Liouville theorem involving recurrent Ornstein--Uhlenbeck stochastic processes in the Appendix.


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