This book gives a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the theory of symmetric Markov processes and symmetric quasi-regular Dirichlet forms. In a detailed and accessible manner, Zhen-Qing
Japanese mathematicians Fukushima (Osaka U.), Yoichi Oshima (Kumamato U.), and Masayoshi Takeda (Tohoku U.) begin with an introductory and comprehensive account of the theory of (symmetric) Dirichlet
