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Prerequisites

Chapter 1. The standard BRowNian motion

 1.1. The standard random walk

 1.2. Passage times for the standard random walk

 1.3. HINCIN'S proof of the DE MOIVRE-LAPLACE limit theorem

 1.4. The standard BROWNian motion

 1.5. P. LEVY's construction

 1.6. Strict MAgKOV character

 1.7. Passage times for the standard BgowNian motion

Note 1: Homogeneous differential processes with increasing paths

 1.8. KOLMOGOROV'S test and the law of the iterated logarithm

 1.9. P. LEVY'S HOLDER condition

 1.10. Approximating the BgowNian motion by a random walk

Chapter 2. BROWNian local times

 2.1. The reflecting BRowNian motion

 2.2. P. LEVY'S local time

 2.3. Elastic BgowNian motion

 2.4. t+ and down-crossings

 2.5. t+ as HAUSDORFF-BESICOVITCH 1/2-dimensional measure

Note 1: Submartingales

Note 2: HAUSDORFF measure and dimension

 2.6. Kxc's formula for BRowNian funetionals

 2.7. BESSEL processes

 2.8. Standard BRowNian local time

 2.9. BRowNian excursions

 2.10. Application of the BESSEL process to BROWNian excursions

 2.11. A time substitution

Chapter 3. The general t-dimensional diffusion

 3.t. Definition

 3.2. MARKOV times

 3.3. Matching numbers

 3.4. Singular points

 3.5. Decomposing the general diffusion into simple pieces

 3.6. GREEN operators and the spaceD

 3.7. Generators

 3.8. Generators continued

 3.9. Stopped diffusion

Chapter 4. Generators

 4.1. A general view

 4.2.  as local differential operator: conservative non-singular case

 4.3.  as local differential operator: general non-singular case

 4.4. A second proof

 4.5.  at an isolated singular point

 4.6. Solving

 4.7.  as global differential operator: non-singular case

 4.8.  on the shunts

 4.9.  as global differential operator: singular case

 4.10. Passage times

Note 1: Differential processes with increasing paths

 4.ft. Eigen-differential expansions for GREEN functions and transition

densities

 4.12. KOLMOGOROV'S test

Chapter 5. Time changes and killing

 5.1. Construction of sample paths: a general view

 5.2. Time changes

 5.3. Time changes

 5.4. Local times

 5.5. Subordination and chain rule

 5.6. Killing times

 5.7. FELLER'S BROWNlan motions

 5.8. IKEDA'S example

 5.9. Time substitutions must come from local time integrals

 5.10. Shunts

 5.11. Shunts with killing

 5.12. Creation of mass

 5.13. A parabolic equation

 5.f4. Explosions

 5.15. A non-linear parabolic equation

Chapter 6. Local and inverse local times

 6.1. Local and inverse local times

 6.2. LEVY measures

 6.3. t and the intervals of [0, + ∞)

 6.4. A counter example: t and the intervals of [0, +∞)

 6.5a t and downcrossings

 6.5b t as HAUSDORFF measure

 6.5c t as diffusion

 6.5d Excursions

 6.6. Dimension numbers

 6.7. Comparison tests Notension Dimension numbers and fractional dimensional capacities

 6.8. An individual ergodic theorem

Chapter 7. BRowNian motion in several dimensions

 7.1. Diffusion in several dimensions

 7.2. The standard BRowNian motion in several dimensions

 7.3. Wandering out to oo

 7.4. GREENian domains and GREEN functions

 7.5. Excessive functions

 7.6. Application to the spectrum of /1/2

 7.7. Potentials and hitting probabilities

 7.8. NEWTONian capacities

 7.9. GAUSS's quadratic form

 7.10. WIENER'S test

 7.11. Applicatiors of WIENER'S test

 7.12. DIRICHLET problem

 7.13. NEUHANN problem

 7.14. Space-time BROWNian moticn

 7.15. Spherical BROWNian motion and skew products

 7.16. Spinning

 7.17. An individual ergodic theorem for the standard 2-dimensional BROWNian motion

 7.18. Covering BROWNian motions

 7.19. Diffusions with BROWNian hitting probabilities

 7.20. Right-continuous paths

 7.21. RIESZ potentials

Chapter 8. A general view of diffusion in several dimensions

 8.1. Similar diffusions

 8.2. as differential operater

 8.3. Time substitutions

 8.4. Potentials

 8.5. Boundaries

 8.6. Elliptic operators

 8.7. FELLER'S little boundary and tail algebras

Bibliography

List of notations

Index