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Malliavin Calculus of Bismut Type for Fractional Powers of Laplacians in Semi-Group Theory

Rémi Léandre

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Rémi Léandre

Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, France u-bourgogne.fr

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First published: 14 September 2011
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Academic Editor: Nikolai Leonenko

Abstract

We translate into the language of semi-group theory Bismut′s Calculus on boundary processes (Bismut (1983), Lèandre (1989)) which gives regularity result on the heat kernel associated with fractional powers of degenerated Laplacian. We translate into the language of semi-group theory the marriage of Bismut (1983) between the Malliavin Calculus of Bismut type on the underlying diffusion process and the Malliavin Calculus of Bismut type on the subordinator which is a jump process.

1. Introduction

Let be 2m + 2 vector fields on d with bounded derivatives at each order. Let
(1.1)
be an Hoermander′s type operator on 1+d. Let
(1.2)
be a second Hoermander′s operator on 1+d. Bismut [1] considers the generator
(1.3)
and the Markov semi-group exp [t𝔸]. This semi-group has a probabilistic representation. We consider a Brownian motion tzt independent of the others Brownian motions . Bismut introduced the solution of the stochastic differential equation starting at x in Stratonovitch sense:
(1.4)
where are m independent Brownian motions.
Let us introduce the local time tLt associated with tzt and its right inverse tAt (see [2, 3]). Then,
(1.5)
Such operator is classically related to the Dirichlet Problem [3].
Classically [4],
(1.6)
where is the solution of the Stratonovitch differential equation starting at x:
(1.7)
The question is as following: is there an heat-kernel associated with the semi-group exp [t𝕃1]? This means that
(1.8)
There are several approaches in analysis to solve this problem, either by using tools of microlocal analysis or tools of harmonic analysis. Malliavin [5] uses the probabilistic representation of the semi-group. Malliavin uses a heavy apparatus of functional analysis (number operator on Fock space or equivalently Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator on the Wiener space, Sobolev spaces on the Wiener space) in order to solve this problem.

Bismut [6] avoids using this machinery to solve this hypoellipticity problem. In particular, Bismut’s approach can be adapted immediately to the case of the Poisson process [7]. The main difficulty to treat in the case of a Poisson process is the following: in general the solution of a stochastic differential equation with jumps is not a diffeomorphism when the starting point is moving (see [810]).

The main remark of Bismut in [1] is that if we consider the jump process , then it is a diffeomorphism almost surely in x. So, Bismut mixed the tools of the Malliavin Calculus for diffusion (on the process ) and the tools of the Malliavin Calculus for Poisson process (on the jump process tAt) in order to show that this isthe problem if
(1.9)
Developments on Bismut’s idea was performed by Léandre in [9, 11]. Let us remark that this problem is related to study the regularity of the Dirichlet problem (see [1, page 598]) (see [1214] for related works).

Recently, we have translated into the language of semi-group theory the Malliavin Calculus of Bismut type for diffusion [15]. We have translated in semi-group theory a lot of tools on Poisson processes [1622]. Especially, we have translated the Malliavin Calculus of Bismut type for Poisson process in semi-group theory in [17]. It should be tempting to translate in semi-group theory Bismut’s Calculus on boundary process. It is the object of this work.

On the general problematic on this work, we refer to the review papers of Léandre [2325]. It enters in the general program to introduce stochastic analysis tools in the theory of partial differential equation (see [2628]).

2. Statements of the Theorems

Let us recall some basis on the study of fractional powers of operators [29]. Let 𝕃 be a generator of a Markovian semi-group Ps. Then,
(2.1)
The results of this paper could be extended to generators of the type
(2.2)
where and g ≥ 0, but we have chosen the operator of the type (1.3) to be more closely related to the original intuition on Bismut’s Calculus on boundary process. Let be 𝔼d = 1+d × 𝔾d × 𝕄d where 𝔾d is the space of invertible matrices on d and 𝕄d the space of symmetric matrices on d. (s, x, U, V) is the generic element of 𝔼d. V is called the Malliavin matrix.
On 𝔼d, we consider the vector fields:
(2.3)
We consider the Malliavin generator on 𝔼d:
(2.4)
We consider the Malliavin semi-group associated and .
We perform the same algebraic considerations on 𝕃2. We get , , and . Let us consider the total generator
(2.5)
and the Malliavin semi-group .

We get a theorem which enters in the framework of the Malliavin Calculus for heat-kernel.

Theorem 2.1. Let one suppose that the Malliavin condition in x is checked:

(2.6)
holds for all p, then
(2.7)
where qt(s, y) is the density of a probability measure on 1+d.

Theorem 2.2. If the quadratic form

(2.8)
is invertible in x, then the Malliavin condition holds in x.

Remark 2.3. We give simple statements to simplify the exposition. It should be possible by the method of this paper to translate the results of [9, part III], got by using stochastic analysis as a tool.

3. Integration by Parts on the Underlying Diffusion

We consider the vector fields on 1+d+1,
(3.1)
where (ϕ(x) is a convenient matrix on m which depends smoothly on x and whose derivatives at each order are bounded. does not depend on x, and belong to m). Let be a smooth function on 1+d+1, denotes its gradient, and denotes its Hessian.
We consider the generator acting on smooth functions on 1+d+1,
(3.2)
In (3.2), the generator is written under Itô’s form. It generates a time inhomogeneous in the parameter s semi-group . We can consider
(3.3)
We put
(3.4)
It generates a semi-group .
Let us consider the Hoermander’s type generator associated with the smooth Lipschitz vector fields on 1+d+d((s, x, U) on 1+d+d):
(3.5)
We consider the heat semi-group associated with
(3.6)
Let us recall [15, Theorem 2.2] that
(3.7)
where f depends only on (s, x). In the left-hand side of (3.7), we apply the enlarged semi-group to the test function (s, x, u) → f(s, x)u and in the right-hand side we apply the semi-group to the test function (s, x, U) → 〈Df, U〉. u belongs to and U belongs to d. From this, we deduce the following.

Lemma 3.1. One has the relation

(3.8)

Let us consider the semi-group associated with
(3.9)
We get, with the same notations for (s, x, u, U) the following.

Theorem 3.2. For f bounded continuous with compact support in (s, x), one has the following relation:

(3.10)

Proof. For the integrability conditions, we refer to the appendix.

We remark that /u commute with , therefore with . We deduce that

(3.11)
By the method of variation of constants,
(3.12)
In order to show that, we follow the lines of (2.17) and (2.18) in [15]. We apply to (3.11).

By Lemma 3.1,

(3.13)
Let us consider the vector fields on 1+d × 𝔾d,
(3.14)
We consider the Hoermander’s type operator associated with these vector fields:
(3.15)
We consider the generator
(3.16)
It generates a semi-group . By lemma 3.2 of [15], we have
(3.17)
By [15, Equation (3.18)],
(3.18)
In [15, Equation (3.18)], we consider the semi-group instead of the semi-group and the test function Df instead as of the test function here. is considered as an element of and not as a one-order differential operator:
(3.19)
Therefore,
(3.20)
We write
(3.21)
where
(3.22)
The Volterra expansion (see [15, Equation (3.17)]) if it converges gives the following formula:
(3.23)
But is linear in u0. Therefore:
(3.24)
In this last formula, are considered as differential operators.

Therefore, does not depend on U0 and is equal to

(3.25)
where are considered as elements of d. We deduce as in [15, Equation (3.17)],
(3.26)
But is linear. Therefore,
(3.27)
It remains to replace f by Df in this last equation and to compare (3.26) with (3.13) and (3.20).

We consider the Malliavin generator . We can perform the same algebraic construction as in Theorem 3.2. We get two semi-groups and . and are smooth with bounded derivatives in . We get by the same procedure the following.

Theorem 3.3. If is bounded with bounded derivatives and with compact support in s, then one gets

(3.28)
where one take does not derivative in the direction of s in .

We can perform the same improvements as in [15, page 512]. We define on some vectors fields:
(3.29)
where
(3.30)
where have derivatives bounded at each order and has derivative with polynomial growth.

We can consider the generator associated with these vector fields and perform the same algebraic computations as in Theorem 3.2. We get two semi-groups and and are smooth with bounded derivatives in . We get by the same procedure the following.

Theorem 3.4. If is bounded with bounded derivatives and with compact support in s, then one gets

(3.31)
where does not include derivative in the direction of s.

We refer to the appendix for the proof and the subsequent estimates.

Remark 3.5. Let us show from where come these identities, by using (1.4): we consider a time interval [At, At]. On this random time interval, we do the following translation on the leading Brownian motion :

  • (i)

    if zs > 0 on this time interval, then is transformed in for a small parameter λ,

  • (ii)

    if zs < 0 on this time interval, then is transformed in for a small parameter λ.

According to the fact that f has compact support (this means that we consider bounded values of At), the transformed Brownian motion has an equivalent law through the Girsanov exponential to the original Brownian motions. The term in u in Theorem 3.2 come that from the fact we take the derivative in λ = 0 of the Girsanov exponential. When we do this transformation, we get a random process . Derivation of it in λ = 0 is done classically according to the stochastic flow theorem, which leads to the study of generators of the type and of the type 𝕃j,3.

4. Integration by Parts on the Subordinator

Let us consider diffusion type generator of the previous part:
(4.1)
Let us consider the semi-group
(4.2)
and the semi-group
(4.3)
We have classically
(4.4)
where the smooth vector fields are Lipschitz.
Therefore, we can write
(4.5)
We consider a diffeomorphsim fλ(s) of [0, [ with bounded derivative of first order in λ equal to s if s < ϵ and equals to s if s > 2 (we suppose λ small). We can write
(4.6)
We do this operation on the two operators on 1+d giving 𝔸. We get a generator 𝔸λ.
According the line of stochastic analysis, we consider a generator 𝔸λ,1 on 1+d+1. If 𝕃1 is a generator on 1+d with associated semi-group Ps, then we consider 𝔸λ,1 the generator on 1+d+1,
(4.7)
where Jλ(s) is the Jacobian of the transformation sfλ(s). By doing this procedure in (1.3), we deduce a global generator 𝔸λ,1 and a semi-group associated with it.
It is not clear that is a Markovian semi-group. We decompose
(4.8)
where
(4.9)
𝔸λ,1,ϵ generates a Markovian semi-group . But is a bounded operator on the set of bounded continuous functions on 1+d+1 endowed with the uniform norm. The Volterra expansion converges on this set:
(4.10)

Theorem 4.1 (Girsanov). For f with compact support in (s, x), one has

(4.11)

Proof. By linearity,

(4.12)
But by an elementary change of variable,
(4.13)
The result holds by the unicity of the solution of the parabolic equation associated with 𝔸. To state the integrability of u, we refer to [16].

Remark 4.2. Let us show from where this formula comes. In the previous part, we have done a perturbation of the leading Brownian motion . Here, we do a perturbation of ΔAs into . By standard result on Levy processes, the law of the Levy process is equivalent to the law of At. Moreover, and are independents. Therefore, the result.

Bismut’s idea to state hypoellipticity result is to take the derivative in λ of

(4.14)
in order to get an integration by parts.

First of all, let us compute in λ = 0. It is fulfilled by the next considerations. Let us consider a generator written under Hoermander’s form:

(4.15)
where gλ are smooth and where the vector fields Yi are smooth Lipschitz on . We consider the semi-group associated with it. Let us introduce the vector fields on :
(4.16)
Let us consider the diffusion generator
(4.17)
Associated with it there is a semi-group .

Proposition 4.3. For f smooth with compact support, one has

(4.18)

Proof. Let us introduce the vector fields on :

(4.19)
and the generator
(4.20)
Associated with it there is a semi-group .

If the Volterra expansion converges, then

(4.21)
But is linear in and therefore the quantity does not depend on . Therefore the Volterra expansion reads
(4.22)
Let us compute 𝕃λ,1𝕃λ,2. It is equal to
(4.23)
We use the relation (see [15, Lemma 3.2])
(4.24)
and the relation
(4.25)
Therefore,
(4.26)
We insert this formula in the right-hand side of (4.23) and we see that satisfies the same parabolic equation as .

Remark 4.4. Let us show from where this formula comes. Classically,

(4.27)
where is the solution of the Stratonovitch equation starting at x:
(4.28)
Therefore, is solution starting at 0 of the Stratonovitch differential equation:
(4.29)
which can be solved classically by using the method of variation of constant [4].

Let us introduce the generator on 1+d+1+1+d𝔸λ,2:

(4.30)
It generates a semi-group . In order to see that, we split the generator by keeping the values od sϵ  or  sϵ and we proceed as for 𝔸λ,1 (see (4.10)).

We get the following.

Theorem 4.5. For f smooth with compact support in s and with derivatives of each order bounded, one has the relation if one takes only derivatives in (s0, x0) of the considered expressions:

(4.31)

Proof. We have

(4.32)
But by [15, Lemma 3.2.]:
(4.33)
Therefore satisfies the parabolic equation associated with . Only the integrability of U puts any problem. It is solved by the appendix since f has compact support in s.

Theorem 4.6. For f with compact support in in .

(4.34)
if , belong to .

Proof. If the Volterra expansion converges, then

(4.35)
But is linear in and therefore the quantity do not depend of . Therefore the Volterra expansion reads
(4.36)
But the last term in the right-hand side of (4.26) is equal to by the end of the proof of the Proposition 4.3.

Remark 4.7. Analogous formula works for D exp [t𝔸]f.

Let us compute . We remark that

(4.37)
Namely, the generator of does not act on the u0 component such that the two sides of (4.37) satisfy the same parabolic equality.

Therefore,

(4.38)
where , Therefore,
(4.39)
a3(t) in the previous expression is the only term which contains a derivative of f, because by Proposition 4.3,
(4.40)

Let 𝔸3 be the generator on 1+d+1+d:

(4.41)
It generates a semi-group, . We get the following.

Theorem 4.8. For f with compact support in s and with bounded derivatives at each order, we have

(4.42)

Proof. If the Volterra expansion converges, then

(4.43)
But is linear in (u0, U0). Let us explain the details of that. We have to compute
(4.44)
By the technique of the beginning of the proof of Proposition 4.3, it does not depend on (u0, U0). Therefore, the Volterra expansion reads:
(4.45)
But
(4.46)
does not depend on (u0, U0). Therefore, the right-hand side of formula (4.45) is equal to
(4.47)
But
(4.48)
because is linear in (u0, U0) and because the vector fields which give the generator of are linear in u0, U0. Therefore,
(4.49)
But by an analog of Theorem 4.5,
(4.50)

We can summarize the previous considerations in the next theorem.

Theorem 4.9. If fλ(s) is a diffeomorphism of [0, [ equal to s if s ∈ [0, ϵ[ and if s > 1, then one has the following integration by part formula if f is with compact support in s, bounded with bounded derivatives at each order:

(4.51)
where .

Theorem 4.10. Let one suppose that fλ(s) = s + λs5 near 0. Then, (4.51) is still true.

Proof. It is enough to show that wecan approximate fλ(s) by a function equal to s if s < ϵ. Let us give some details on this approximation. We consider a smooth function g from into [0,1] equal to zero if s ≤ 1/2 and equal to 1 if s > 1. We put

(4.52)
We remark that
  • (i)

    if sϵ/2, then g(s/ϵ)s5/ϵ = 0,

  • (ii)

    if s > ϵ, then g(s/ϵ)s5/ϵ = 0,

  • (iii)

    if s ∈ [ϵ/2, ϵ], then |g(s/ϵ)s5/ϵ | ≤ Cs4.

is the semi-group associated with 𝔸3,ϵ where we replace in the construction of (4.41) fλ(s) by :

(4.53)
By the appendix,
(4.54)
if h is compact support in s. Let us consider the generator A3,ϵ associated with . If g = 〈df, u, U〉, then we have by Duhamel principle
(4.55)
By the proof of Theorem 4.8, is affine in (u0, U0). Namely, in the proof of this theorem, we have removed the which is equal to zero in u0 = 0, U0 = 0 because this expression is linear in u0, U0. Its component in (u0, U0) is smooth with bounded derivatives at each order. By Theorem 4.6, is still affine in (u0, U0) and its components in (u0, U0) are smooth with bounded derivatives at each order. Moreover, if g1 is affine in (u0, U0) with components in (u0, U0) smooth with bounded derivatives at each order, then we get that, for s ≤ 1,
(4.56)
where C(ϵ) → 0 when ϵ → 0. This can be seen as an appliation of the Duhamel formula applied to the two semi-groups and . Then, the result arises from the Duhamel formula (4.55).

We can consider vector fields at the manner of (3.30) and fλ(s) = s + λs5 in a neighborhood of 0. We get a generator 𝔸tot and semi-groups and . We have with the extension of Theorem 4.10 the following.

Theorem 4.11 (Bismut). If fλ(s) = s + λs5 in a neighborhood of 0 and is equal to 1 if s > 1, then one has the following integration by parts: let ftot be a function with compact support in s, bounded with bounded derivatives at each order. Then,

(4.57)

5. The Abstract Theorem

The proof of Theorem 2.1 follows the idea of Malliavin [5]. If there exist Cl such that, for function f with compact support in [0,1] × [0,l]d,
(5.1)
then the heat kernel qt(s, y) exists.
There are two partial derivatives to treat:
  • (i)

    the partial derivative in the time of the subordinator s,

  • (ii)

    the partial derivatives in the space of the underlying diffusion x.

Let us begin by the most original part of Bismut′s Calculus on boundary process, that is, the integration by parts in the time s.

We look at (4.42). We remark (see the next part) that
(5.2)
for all p. So, we take ftot(s, x, u) = f(s, x)1/u and we apply (4.42) for this convenient semi-group. We get
(5.3)
R can be estimated by using the appendix by Clf for f with compact support in [0, l] × [0,l]d and by (5.2).

Lemma 5.1. For a conveniently enlarged semi-group in the manner of Theorem 3.4, one has for f with compact support in s

(5.4)

Proof. If is a function with compact support depending only of s, xtot and V, we have

(5.5)
We do the change of variable UU and VUV on the Malliavin generator . By using Lemma 3.7 of [15], it is transformed in where for 𝔸2,tot we consider the same type of operator as 𝔸2 but with the modified vector fields:
(5.6)
It remains to use the appendix to show the Lemma.

We consider . By the previous Lemma and Malliavin hypothesis,
(5.7)
for all p if g(s) has compact support (V is a matrix). After we consider a test function of the type of Bismut, we consider the component ui of U in (5.3). We consider the Bismut function fV−1(ui/u). We integrate by parts as in Theorem 3.4. We deduce under Malliavin assumption that
(5.8)
if f has compact support in [0, l] × [0,l]d.
By the same way, we deduce that if f has compact support in [0, l] × [0,l]dthen
(5.9)
Therefore, the result is obtained.

Remark 5.2. We could do integration by parts to each order in order to show that the semi-group exp [t𝔸] has a smooth heat-kernel under Malliavin assumption.

6. Inversion of the Malliavin Matrix

Proof of Theorem 2.2. Let s1 < s2 and let ξ be of modulus 1. Then,

(6.1)
These two quantities are equal in t = 0 when we consider the semi-group . Let us compute their derivative in time t. The derivative of the left-hand side is bigger than the derivative of the right-hand side because
(6.2)
(These two quantities are negative.)

By the result of the appendix,

(6.3)
for all p.

Lemma 6.1. If |ξ| = 1, then there exist C and C0 independent of ξ such that

(6.4)

Proof. We consider a convex function decreasing from [0, [ into [0,1] equal to 1 in 0 and tending to 0 at infinity. Let us introduce

(6.5)
In order to consider the derivative in s of αs, we study the expression
(6.6)
We have only to consider by (6.3) the case where s is small enough, |xx| is small enough, |UI| is small enough, and the positive matrix V is small enough. For that we have to estimate
(6.7)
for u between 0 and ϵ. The first derivative of γu has an equivalent −Cϵ−1 when ϵ → 0, and its second derivative has a bound Cϵ−2 when ϵ → 0. Therefore,
(6.8)
on [0, ϵ] and
(6.9)

We deduce from that that

(6.10)

Remark 6.2. We could improve (6.4) by showing that

(6.11)
if s is small enough, |xx| is small enough, |UI| is small enough, and the positive matrix V is small enough.

We consider a very small α. We slice the time interval [0, ϵα] in ϵα−1 intervals of length ϵ. We have

(6.12)
for a small C0. This last quantity is smaller than Cϵp for all p by the previous lemma if α is small enough. The proof of Theorem 2.2 follows from
(6.13)
for all p by using the result of the appendix. The result follows by standard methods (see [15, Equations (4.8) and (4.9)].

It remains to show the following.

Theorem 6.3. For all p > 0,

(6.14)

Proof. We remark that if we consider only functions of u, then

(6.15)
where is a Lévy semi-group with generator
(6.16)
where g(s) = 1 on a neighborhood of 0, is with compact support and is positive. The result follows from the adaptation in [17, 18] of the proof of [7] in semi-group theory. We remark that
(6.17)
By using the adaptation in semi-group theory of the exponential martingales of Levy process of [17, 18], we have
(6.18)
The result holds from the Tauberian theorem of [7, 17, 18].

Appendix

Burkholder-Davies-Gundy Inequality

Theorem A.4. Let s0 > 0 and p. Then,

(A.1)

Proof. Following the idea of [17, Appendix], we consider the auxiliary function

(A.2)
We get
(A.3)

Let us consider an improvement of the Gronwall lemma: if , then |xtx0| ≤ Kt|x0| if t ∈ [0,1].

We remark that

(A.4)
for K independent of C. Then, by the modified Gronwall lemma,
(A.5)
where K does not depend on C.

By Gronwall lemma,

(A.6)
where K does not depend on C. The result arises by doing C.

By the same procedure, we get the following.

Theorem A.5. Let be s0 > 0 and p. Then

(A.7)

and we get the following.

Theorem A.6. Let s0 > 0 and p:

(A.8)

Remark A.7. We can show (6.3) by the same way.

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