Abstract
We establish the hypoellipticity of a large class of highly degenerate second order differential operators of Hörmander type. The hypotheses of our theorem allow Hörmander's general Lie algebra condition to fail on a collection of hypersurfaces. The proof of the theorem is probabilistic in nature. It is based on the Malliavin calculus and requires new sharp estimates for diffusion processes in Euclidean space.
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Published in Duke Mathematical Journal, 78(3), 453-475. © Copyright 1995 Duke University Press.