We obtain an intrinsic version of a Bismut type formula for the Hessian of heat semigroups, resp. harmonic functions, by computing second order directional derivatives of families of martingales, along with filtering of redundant noise. As applications we provide a Hessian estimate in the general case as well as a slightly improved one in the radially symmetric situation.
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