Sub-Feller semigroups generated by pseudodifferential operators on symmetric spaces of noncompact type

Abstract

We consider global pseudodifferential operators on symmetric spaces of noncompact type, defined using spherical functions. The associated symbols have a natural probabilistic form that extend the notion of the characteristic exponent appearing in Gangolli's Lévy–Khinchine formula to a function of two variables. The Hille–Yosida–Ray theorem is used to obtain conditions on such a symbol so that the corresponding pseudodifferential operator has an extension that generates a sub-Feller semigroup, generalising existing results for Euclidean space.