Dirichlet forms and symmetric Markov processes. (Q617749)

The first edition of this book [(1994; Zbl 0838.31001)] has been the standard reference on Dirichlet forms and symmetric Markov processes. In this revised and extended edition, the authors made the following major changes: they removed Section 7.3 from the first edition and added 4 news sections: Section 2.4, Section 4.7, Section 4.8, and Section 6.4. Besides these major changes, there are many minor changes throughout the book. For instance, in Chapter 5, the Lyons-Zheng decomposition is now formulated for a general, not necessarily conservative, symmetric Hunt process associated with a regular Dirichlet form, and in Chapter 6, a theorem (Theorem 6.3.3) on the ergodicity of transformed processes is added. These new additions make this new edition more up to date. The authors made this second edition more suitable as a textbook by converting the problems in the first edition into exercises and by adding many new exercises. The authors also provided solutions to the exercises at the end of the book.