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Charles L. Epstein and Rafe Mazzeo

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780691157122

Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017

DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691157122.001.0001

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The Resolvent Operator

Chapter:
(p.218) Chapter Eleven The Resolvent Operator
Source:
Degenerate Diffusion Operators Arising in Population Biology (AM-185)
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691157122.003.0011

This chapter describes the construction of a resolvent operator using the Laplace transform of a parametrix for the heat kernel and a perturbative argument. In the equation (μ‎-L) R(μ‎) f = f, R(μ‎) is a right inverse for (μ‎-L). In Hölder spaces, these are the natural elliptic estimates for generalized Kimura diffusions. The chapter first constructs the resolvent kernel using an induction over the maximal codimension of bP, and proves various estimates on it, along with corresponding estimates for the solution operator for the homogeneous Cauchy problem. It then considers holomorphic semi-groups and uses contour integration to construct the solution to the heat equation, concluding with a discussion of Kimura diffusions where all coefficients have the same leading homogeneity.

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