Masatoshi Fukushima: SelectaProfessor Masatoshi Fukushima is one of the most influential probabilists of our times. His fundamental work on Dirichlet forms and Markov processes made Hilbert space methods a tool in stochastic analysis and by this he opened the way to several new developments. His impact on a new generation of probabilists in his native country as well as in many other countries can hardly be overstated.

In publishing a selection of his seminal papers we aim to serve the community, and at the same time we want to express our appreciation of a highly respected, humane scholar.

Diffusions, Superdiffusions and Partial Differential Equations

Interactions between the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic and parabolic types and the theory of stochastic processes are beneficial for both probability theory and analysis. At the beginning, mostly analytic results were used by probabilists.