The conservativeness of Girsanov transformed symmetric Markov processes

Abstract

In this paper, we study those Girsanov transformations of symmetric Markov processes which preserve the symmetry. Employing a criterion for uniform integrability of exponential martingales due to Chen [3], we identify the class of transformations which transform the original process into a conservative one, even if the original one is explosive. We also consider the class of transformations which transform to a recurrent one. In [14, 22], the same problems are studied for symmetric diffusion processes. Our main theorem is an extension of their results to symmetric Markov processes with jumps.