Recurrence and transience of branching diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds

Annals of Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 244-284

  Grigor'yan, Alexander ^a,c   Kelbert, Mark ^a,b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching process; Brownian motion; Gauge; Maximum principle; Recurrence; Riemannian manifold; Transience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037253450     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1046294311     Document Type: Article

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