Diffusion processes and heat kernels on metric spaces

DOI10.1214/aop/1022855410zbMath0936.60074OpenAlexW2155193980MaRDI QIDQ1307067

Karl-Theodor Sturm

Publication date: 23 November 1999

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1022855410

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldPoincaré inequalityDirichlet formGaussian estimates\(\Gamma\)-convergenceFeller processLipschitz manifoldintrinsic metricvariational limitstochastic differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Dirichlet forms (31C25) Diffusion processes (60J60) General theory of stochastic processes (60G07) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

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