Brownian motion and harmonic analysis on Sierpinski carpets

Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 673-744

  Barlow, Martin T ^a   Bass, Richard F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Brownian motion heat equation; Coupling; Fractal; Fundamental solutions; Harmonic functions; Harnack inequality; Hausdorff dimension; Potentials; Reflecting brownian motion; Sierpinski carpet; Spectral dimension; Transition densities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033465207     PISSN: 0008414X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4153/CJM-1999-031-4     Document Type: Article

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