On the regularity of sample paths of sub-elliptic diffusions on manifolds

Osaka Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 677-722

  Bendikov, Alexander ^a   Saloff Coste, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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