We study the existence of densities for distributions of piecewise deterministic Markov processes. We also obtain relationships between invariant densities of the continuous time process and that of the process observed at jump times. In our approach we use functional-analytic methods and the theory of linear operator semigroups. By imposing general conditions on the characteristics of a given Markov process, we show the existence of a substochastic semigroup describing the evolution of densities for the process and we identify its generator. Our main tool is a new perturbation theorem for substochastic semigroups, where we perturb both the action of the generator and of its domain, allowing to treat general transport-type equations with non-local boundary conditions. A couple of particular examples illustrate our general results.
We present a generation theorem for positive semigroups on an L 1 space. It provides sufficient conditions for the existence of positive and integrable solutions of initial-boundary value problems. An application to a two-phase cell cycle model is given.1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 47B65, 47H07, 47D06,92C40.
Non-markovian queueing systems can be extended to piecewise-deterministic Markov processes by appending supplementary variables to the system. Then their analysis leads to an infinite system of partial differential equations with an infinite number of variables and non-local boundary conditions. We show how one can study such systems by using the theory of stochastic semigroups.
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