Abstract
We show that Brownian motion on any unbounded submanifold P in an ambient manifold N with a pole P is transient if the following conditions are satisfied: The p-radial mean curvatures of P are sufficiently small outsidea compact set and the p-radial sectional curvatures of N are sufficiently negative. The 'sufficiency' conditions are obtained via comparison with explicit transience criteria for radially drifted Brownian motion in warped product model spaces.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Transactions of the American Mathematical Society |
Volume | 357 |
Issue number | 9 |
Pages (from-to) | 3459-3479 |
ISSN | 0002-9947 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- transience
- capacity
- drifted Brownian motion
- submanifolds
- mean curvature
- radial mean curvature
- warped products
- model spaces
- Hadamard-Cartan manifolds
- extrinsic annuli