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Barlow, M.T. (1998). Diffusions on fractals. In: Bernard, P. (eds) Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092537
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