A functional central limit theorem for diffusions on periodic submanifolds of ℝ N

We prove a functional central limit theorem for diffusions on periodic sub- manifolds of ℝ^N. The proof is an adaptation of a method presented in BenLioPap] and Bha] for proving functional central limit theorems for diffusions with periodic drift vectorfields. We then apply the central limit theorem in order to obtain a recurrence and a transience criterion for periodic diffusions. Other fields of applications could be heat-kernel estimates, similar to the ones obtained in Lot].Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 35B27, 60F05, 58J65The author wants to express his gratitude toward the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan (Taiwan) for its kind hospitality.