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During the weekend of March 16-18, 1990 the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted a conference on the subject of stochastic flows, as part of a Special Activity Month in the Department of Mathematics. This conference was supported jointly by a

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Diffusion Processes and Related Problems in Analysis, Volume II Stochastic Flows Mark A. Pinsky Volker Wihstutz Editors

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Mark A. Pinsky

Department of Mathematics Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208

Volker Wihstutz Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina Charlotte, N.C. 28223

Library of Congress Cata1oging-in-Publication Data Diffusion processes and related problems in analysis. (Progress in probability ; 22, 27) Papers presented al an international conference held October 23-27,1989 and sponsored by the Mathematics Department of Northwestem University. VoI. 2- edited by Mark Pinsky, Volker Wihstutz. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: v. 1. Diffusions in analysis and geometry -- v. 2. Stochastic flows. 1. Diffusion processes--Congresses. 2. Stochastic analysis--Congresses. 1. Pinsky, Mark A., 1940ll. Wihstutz, V. (Volker), 1940ill. Northwestem University (Evanston. DI.). Dept. of Mathematics. IV. Series: Progress in probability ; 22, etc. QA274.75D54 1991 519.2 90-47081 ISBN 978-1-4612-6739-3 ISBN 978-1-4612-0389-6 (eBook) CIP DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-0389-6 Printed on acid -free paper.

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CONTENTS Preface Conference Participants Part I : Diffusion Processes and General Stochastic Flows on Manifolds Stability and equilibrium properties of stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms P. BAXENDALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Stochastic flows on Riemannian manifolds K.D. ELWORTHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Part II: Special Flows and Multipoint Motions Isotropic stochastic flows R.W.R. DARLING . . .

. . . 75

The existence of isometric stochastic flows for Riemannian Brownian motions M. LIAO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Time-reversal of solutions of equations driven by Levy processes P. SUNDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Birth and death on a flow E. GINLAR and J .S. KAO

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Part III: Infinite Dimensional Systems Lyapunov exponents and stochastic flows of linear and affine hereditary systems S.E.A. MOHAMMED . . . . . . . .