@article{EJP634,
author = {Kazumasa Kuwada},
title = {Characterization of maximal Markovian couplings for diffusion processes},
journal = {Electron. J. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
volume = {14},
year = {2009},
keywords = {Maximal coupling, Markovian coupling, diffusion process, Markov chain},
abstract = {Necessary conditions for the existence of a maximal Markovian coupling of diffusion processes are studied. A sufficient condition described as a global symmetry of the processes is revealed to be necessary for the Brownian motion on a Riemannian homogeneous space. As a result, we find many examples of a diffusion process which admits no maximal Markovian coupling. As an application, we find a Markov chain which admits no maximal Markovian coupling for specified starting points.},
pages = {no. 25, 633-662},
issn = {1083-6489},
doi = {10.1214/EJP.v14-634},
url = {http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/634}}