On the structure of bounded smooth measures associated with a quasi-regular Dirichlet form

Abstract

We consider a quasi-regular Dirichlet form. We show that a bounded signed measure charges no set of zero capacity associated with the form if and only if the measure can be decomposed into the sum of an integrable function and a bounded linear functional on the domain of the form. The decomposition allows one to describe explicitly the set of bounded measures charging no sets of zero capacity for interesting classes of Dirichlet forms. By way of illustration, some examples are given.