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Stochastic completeness and volume growth

Differential Geometry 2010-04-02 v2 Probability

Abstract

It has been suggested in 1999 that a certain volume growth condition for geodesically complete Riemannian manifolds might imply that the manifold is stochastically complete. This is motivated by a large class of examples and by a known analogous criterion for recurrence of Brownian motion. We show that the suggested implication is not true in general. We also give counter-examples to a converse implication.

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@article{arxiv.0908.4222,
  title  = {Stochastic completeness and volume growth},
  author = {Christian Baer and G. Pacelli Bessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4222},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures, published version

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