We give first of all a new criterion for Bergman completeness in terms of the pluricomplex Green function. Among several applications, we prove in particular that every Stein subvariety in a complex manifold admits a Bergman complete Stein neighborhood basis, which improves a theorem of Siu. Secondly, we give for hyperbolic Riemann surfaces a sufficient condition for when the Bergman and Poincaré metrics are quasi-isometric. A consequence is an equivalent characterization of uniformly perfect planar domains in terms of growth rates of the Bergman kernel and metric. Finally, we provide a noncompact Bergman complete pseudoconvex manifold without nonconstant negative plurisubharmonic functions.

We give a sufficient condition on a Lévy measure$μ$which ensures that the generator$L$of the corresponding pure jump Lévy process is (locally) hypoelliptic, i.e., $\mathop {\mathrm {sing\,supp}}u\subseteq \mathop {\mathrm {sing\,supp}}Lu$ for all admissible$u$. In particular, we assume that $\mu|_{\mathbb {R}^{d}\setminus \{0\}}\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb {R}^{d}\setminus \{0\})$ . We also show that this condition is necessary provided that $\mathop {\mathrm {supp}}\mu$ is compact.

We study bijections between algebras of smooth functions preserving certain parts of its structure. In particular, we show that multiplicative bijections are implemented by diffeomorphisms and they are automatically algebra isomorphisms. This confirms a conjecture by Mrčun and Šemrl.

For every two-dimensional random walk on the square lattice$Z$^{2}having zero mean and finite variance we obtain fine asymptotic estimates of the probability that the walk hits the negative real line for the first time at a site ($s$,0), when it is started at a site far from both (0,$s$) and the origin.

Let$L$=−Δ+$V$be a Schrödinger operator on ℝ^{$d$},$d$≥3. We assume that$V$is a nonnegative, compactly supported potential that belongs to$L$^{$p$}(ℝ^{$d$}), for some$p$>$d$$/$2. Let$K$_{$t$}be the semigroup generated by −$L$. We say that an$L$^{1}(ℝ^{$d$})-function$f$belongs to the Hardy space $H^{1}_{L}$ associated with$L$if sup_{$t$>0}|$K$_{$t$}$f$| belongs to$L$^{1}(ℝ^{$d$}). We prove that $f\in H^{1}_{L}$ if and only if$R$_{$j$}$f$∈$L$^{1}(ℝ^{$d$}) for$j$=1,…,$d$, where$R$_{$j$}=($∂$/$∂$$x$_{$j$})$L$^{−1$/$2}are the Riesz transforms associated with$L$.