A remark on the maximum principle and stochastic completeness

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1283-1288

  Pigola, Stefano ^a   Rigoli, Marco ^b   Setti, Alberto G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum principle; Stochastic completeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037385520     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06672-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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