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This paper is a continuation of the works by Fukushima–Tanaka (Ann Inst Henri Poincaré Probab Stat 41: 419–459, 2005) and Chen–Fukushima–Ying (Stochastic Analysis and Application, p.153–196. The Abel Symposium, Springer, Heidelberg) on the study of one-point extendability of a pair of standard Markov processes in weak duality. In this paper, general conditions to ensure such an extension are given. In the symmetric case, characterizations of the one-point extensions are given in terms of their Dirichlet forms and in terms of their L 2-infinitesimal generators. In particular, a generalized notion of flux is introduced and is used to characterize functions in the domain of the L 2-infinitesimal generator of the extended process. An important role in our investigation is played by the α-order approaching probability u α .
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The research of Z.-Q. Chen is supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-0600206.
The research of M. Fukushima is supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of MEXT No.19540125.
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Chen, ZQ., Fukushima, M. One-point extensions of Markov processes by darning. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 141, 61–112 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-007-0080-3
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