Stochastic monotonicity and duality for one-dimensional Markov processes
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The theory of monotonicity and duality is developed for general one-dimensional Feller processes, extending the approach from [11]. Moreover it is shown that local monotonicity conditions (conditions on the Lévy kernel) are sufficient to prove the well-posedness of the corresponding Markov semigroup and process, including unbounded coefficients and processes on the half-line.
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