Uniqueness in law for a class of degenerate diffusions with continuous covariance

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 265-302

  Brunick, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerate parabolic operators; Homogeneous groups; Martingale problem; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872658822     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-011-0398-8     Document Type: Article

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