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Acta Mathematica Vietnamica

Some Analytic Results for Kimura Diffusion Operators

icon-email Charles L. Epstein , Jon Wilkening

Abstract

In this note, we prove several analytical results about generalized Kimura diffusion operators, L, defined on compact manifolds with corners, P. It is shown that the C0(P)-graph closure of L acting on C2(P) always has a compact resolvent. In the 1d-case, where P=[0,1], we also establish a gradient estimate xfC0([0,1])CLfC0([0,1]), provided that L has strictly positive weights at [0,1]={0,1}. This in turn leads to a precise characterization of the domain of the C0-graph closure in this case.