Minimal thinness with respect to symmetric Lévy processes

Kim, Panki; Song, Renming; Vondraček, Zoran

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Minimal thinness with respect to symmetric Lévy processes
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Abstract:

Minimal thinness is a notion that describes the smallness of a set at a boundary point. In this paper, we provide tests for minimal thinness at finite and infinite minimal Martin boundary points for a large class of purely discontinuous symmetric Lévy processes.

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