Elastic Brownian motion with random jumps from the boundary

Abstract

In this paper, we study elastic Brownian motion on a \(C^2\) domain. Instead of being killed at the boundary, the process restarts from a random position inside the domain. We characterize this process through its stochastic differential equation (SDE), its generator, and a description of the paths. We also derive the invariant probability measure and the spectral representation. At the end, we focus on the harmonic functions on the upper half-space to study the trace process.