Chernoff's theorem and discrete time approximations of Brownian motion on manifolds

Potential Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-29

  Smolyanov, Oleg G ^a   Weizsäcker, Heinrich V ^b   Wittich, Olaf ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Mean, scalar, sectional) curvature; Approximation of Feller semigroups; Brownian bridge; Conditional process; Geodesic interpolation; Infinite dimensional surface measure; Pseudo Gaussian kernels; Wick's formula

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846013541     PISSN: 09262601     EISSN: 1572929X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11118-006-9019-z     Document Type: Article

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