A geometric statement of the Harnack inequality for a degenerate Kolmogorov equation with rough coefficients

Abstract

We consider weak solutions of second-order partial differential equations of Kolmogorov–Fokker–Planck-type with measurable coefficients in the form [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a symmetric uniformly positive definite matrix with bounded measurable coefficients; [Formula: see text] and the components of the vector [Formula: see text] are bounded and measurable functions. We give a geometric statement of the Harnack inequality recently proved by Golse et al. As a corollary, we obtain a strong maximum principle.