Maximum principles for nonlocal parabolic Waldenfels operators

Abstract

As a class of Lévy type Markov generators, nonlocal Waldenfels operators appear naturally in the context of investigating stochastic dynamics under Lévy fluctuations and constructing Markov processes with boundary conditions (in particular the construction with jumps). This work is devoted to prove the weak and strong maximum principles for ‘parabolic’ equations with nonlocal Waldenfels operators. Applications in stochastic differential equations with α-stable Lévy processes are presented to illustrate the maximum principles.

Keywords

• nonlocal operators
• weak and strong maximum principles
• integro-partial differential equations
• waldenfels operators
• fokker–planck equations
• stochastic differential equations with α-stable lévy processes