Snakes and spiders: Brownian motion on ℝ-trees

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 361-386

  Evans, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Diffusion; Dirichlet form; Entrance boundary; Local time; Martin boundary; Ray Knight compactification; Semi martingale decomposition; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034403135     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004400050010     Document Type: Article

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