Nonlinear Markov semigroups and interacting Lévy type processes
Résumé
Semigroups of positivity preserving linear operators on measures of a measurable space $X$ describe the evolutions of probability distributions of Markov processes on $X$. Their dual semigroups of positivity preserving linear operators on the space of measurable bounded functions $B(X )$ on $X$ describe the evolutions of averages over the trajectories of these Markov processes. In this paper we introduce and study the general class of semigroups of non-linear positivity preserving transformations on measures that is non-linear Markov or Feller semigroups. An explicit structure of generators of such semigroups is given in case when $X$ is the Euclidean space $\R^d$ (or more generally, a manifold) showing how these semigroups arise from the general kinetic equations of statistical mechanics and evolutionary biology that describe the dynamic law of large numbers for Markov models of interacting particles. Well posedness results for these equations are given together with applications to interacting particles: dynamic law of large numbers and central limit theorem, the latter being new already for the standard coagulation-fragmentation models
Mots clés
Positivity preserving measure-valued evolutions
conditionally positive operators
Markov models of interacting particles
dynamic law of large numbers
normal fluctuations
rate of convergence
kinetic equations
interacting stable jump-diffusions
Lévy type processes
coagulation-fragmentation.
coagulation-fragmentation