Abstract
For an increasing sequence (T_n) of one-parameter semigroups of sub Markovian kernel operators over a Polish space, we study the limit semigroup and prove sufficient conditions for it to be strongly Feller. In particular, we show that the strong Feller property carries over from the approximating semigroups to the limit semigroup if the resolvent of the latter maps mathbb {1} to a continuous function. This is instrumental in the study of elliptic operators on mathbb {R}^d with unbounded coefficients: our abstract result enables us to assign a semigroup to such an operator and to show that the semigroup is strongly Feller under very mild regularity assumptions on the coefficients. We also provide counterexamples to demonstrate that the assumptions in our main result are close to optimal.
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