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We prove Harnack’s inequality for harmonic functions of a symmetric stable Lévy process on Rd without the assumption that the density function of its Lévy measure is locally bounded from below.
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Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000)
Primary 60J45, 31C05; Secondary 60G51.
Research partially supported by KBN (2P03A 041 22) and RTN (HPRN-CT-2001-00273-HARP).
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Bogdan, K., Sztonyk, P. Harnack’s Inequality for Stable Lévy Processes. Potential Anal 22, 133–150 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-004-0590-x
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