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This chapter provides a general framework for the investigation of symmetric Markov diffusion semigroups and operators. Based on the early observations of the first chapter and on the investigation of the model examples, it develops all the fundamental properties which will justify the computations in the following chapters in the most convenient framework. The main setting consisting of a Markov Triple (E,μ,Γ) describes a convenient framework to develop the formalism of Markov semigroups and the Γ-calculus towards functional inequalities and convergence to equilibrium. The analysis of the concrete example of second order differential operators on smooth complete connected manifolds is the guide for the description, in this framework, of some main features such as connexity, completeness, weak hypo-ellipticity etc. With the main tool of essential self-adjointness at the center of the construction, the chapter emphasizes the relevant hypotheses and properties of Full Markov Triples, in force throughout the monograph, covering the main examples of illustrations.
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Bakry, D., Gentil, I., Ledoux, M. (2014). Symmetric Markov Diffusion Operators. In: Analysis and Geometry of Markov Diffusion Operators. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 348. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00227-9_3
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