Intrinsic Ultracontractivity of Non-local Dirichlet forms on Unbounded Open Sets

Abstract: In this paper we consider a large class of symmetric Markov processes $X=(X_t){t\ge0}$ on $\R^d$ generated by non-local Dirichlet forms, which include jump processes with small jumps of $\alpha$-stable-like type and with large jumps of super-exponential decay. Let $D\subset \R^d$ be an open (not necessarily bounded and connected) set, and $X^D=(X_t^D){t\ge0}$ be the killed process of $X$ on exiting $D$. We obtain explicit criterion for the compactness and the intrinsic ultracontractivity of the Dirichlet Markov semigroup $(P^{D}t){t\ge0}$ of $X^D$. When $D$ is a horn-shaped region, we further obtain two-sided estimates of ground state in terms of jumping kernel of $X$ and the reference function of the horn-shaped region $D$.