Dirichlet boundary value problems for elliptic operators with measure data: a probabilistic approach

Abstract: In this paper, we use probabilistic approach to prove that there exists a unique weak solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for second order elliptic equations whose coefficients are signed measures, and we will give a probabilistic representation of the solutions. This is the first time to study Dirichlet boundary value problems with this generality. The heat kernel estimates play a crucial role in our approach.