Our purpose is to study an ergodic linear equation associated to diffusion
processes with jumps in the whole space. This integro-differential equation
plays a fundamental role in ergodic control problems of second order Marko
v processes. The key result is to prove the existence and uniqueness of an
invariant density function for a jump diffusion, whose lower order coeffici
ents are only Borel measurable. Based on this invariant probability, existe
nce and uniqueness (up to an additive constant) of solutions to the ergodic
linear equation are established.