Brownian motion on a manifold as a limit of Brownian motions with drift (Q1033754)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5628002
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    Brownian motion on a manifold as a limit of Brownian motions with drift
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5628002

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      Brownian motion on a manifold as a limit of Brownian motions with drift (English)
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      10 November 2009
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      Let \(M\) be a smooth \(m\)-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. Due to \textit{J. Nash}'s theorem [Ann. Math. (2) 63, 20--63 (1956; Zbl 0070.38603)] we can assume that it is isometrically embedded into a Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^n\). A Brownian motion on the manifold is the continuous Markov process whose transition semigroup is generated by \(-\frac{1}{2 }\Delta_M\) where \(\Delta_M\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on \(M\). In this note, the author proves that a sequence of Brownian motions with drift in the direction of the manifold \(M\) with infinitely increasing modulus converge in distribution to a Brownian motion on the manifold.
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      Brownian motion
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      Wiener measure
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      Riemannian manifold
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      convergence in distribution
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