“…The calculational techniques used in the proof of the analogue of Proposition 1.8 in [
18] are unavailable when
. In this regard, we develop a new approach to the proof of these estimates taking advantage of the fact that the
inequalities of [
2, 26] are valid for abstract symmetric Markov generators, in particular, for a “weighted” fractional Laplace operator; we show that the latter is indeed a symmetric Markov generator using the method of proof of L 1 accretivity of non‐local operators in weighted spaces introduced in [
19] (but for different weights and for different purpose). Armed with the
inequalities for the weighed fractional Laplace operator, we repeat the principal steps of construction of the Feller semigroup but now in the weighted space, using the fact that the crucial pointwise estimate (C.0) does not depend on the choice of the weight on
.…”