Small-time Gaussian behavior of symmetric diffusion semigroups

Annals of Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1254-1295

  Hino, Masanori ^a   Ramírez, José A ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet spaces; Heat kernel; Intrinsic metric; Loop group; Short time asymptotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038034729     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1055425779     Document Type: Article

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