Derivatives of self-intersection local times

We show that the renormalized self-intersection local time γt(x) for both the Brownian motion and symmetric stable process in R is differentiable in the spatial variable and that γ′ t(0) can be characterized as the continuous process of zero quadratic variation in the decomposition of a natural Dirichlet process. This Dirichlet process is the potential of a random Schwartz distribution. Analogous results for fractional derivatives of self-intersection local times in R and R are also discussed.