Essential self-adjointness of Dirichlet operators on a path space with Gibbs measures via an SPDE approach

The main objective of this paper is to prove the essential self-adjointness of Dirichlet operators in L2(μ) where μ is a Gibbs measure on an infinite volume path space C(R,Rd ). This operator can be regarded as a perturbation of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck operator by a nonlinearity and corresponds to a parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (= SPDE, in abbreviation) on R. In view of quantum field theory, the solution of this SPDE is called a P(φ)1-time evolution. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.