On smoothing properties of transition semigroups associated to a class of SDEs with jumps

Abstract

We prove smoothing properties of nonlocal transition semigroups associated to a class of stochastic differential equations (SDE) driven by additive pure-jump L\'evy noise. In particular, we assume that the L\'evy process driving the SDE is the sum of a subordinated Wiener process and of an independent arbitrary L\'evy process, that the drift coefficient is continuous (but not necessarily Lipschitz continuous) and grows not faster than a polynomial, and that the SDE admits a Feller weak solution. By a combination of probabilistic and analytic methods, we provide sufficient conditions for the Markovian semigroup associated to the SDE to be strong Feller and to map $L_p$ to continuous bounded functions. A key intermediate step is the study of regularizing properties of the transition semigroup associated to the subordinated Wiener process in terms of negative moments of the subordinator.