Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Dirichlet Problems of Semilinear Elliptic Operators with Singular Coefficients

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that there exists a unique solution to the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a general class of semilinear second order elliptic differential operators which do not necessarily have the maximum principle and are non-symmetric in general. Our method is probabilistic. It turns out that we need to solve a class of backward stochastic differential equations with singular coefficients, which is of independent interest itself. The theory of Dirichlet forms also plays an important role.