“…Besides the reference [CS], which we use extensively, previous relevant papers of Cipriani and Sauvageot are [CS02,CS03gfa]. Concerning the relation between Dirichlet forms and operator algebras, our work was also influenced by [Ko1,Ko2,Si05]. In our paper we use the classical theory of local Dirichlet forms, see [BouleauHirsch, FOT, RöcknerMa].…”