Uniform limits of balayage spaces (Q1189284)

It is well-known that a balayage space contains at most countably many finely isolated points. (Such points are holding points for an associated Markov process.) By way of demonstrating that this statement cannot, in general, be sharpened, the author shows that given a countable set \(D\subset]0,1[\) there is a balayage space whose set of finely isolated points is precisely \(D\). The constructed balayage space corresponds to a modified Brownian motion, which exits a holding point \(x\in D\) by jumping to \(x\pm\varepsilon(x)\) (with probability 1/2 each), for suitably chosen \(\varepsilon(x)\). The construction relies on a general theorem concerning ``uniform'' limits of balayage space, a procedure which is of intrinsic interest.