An extension problem (often called a boundary problem) of Markov
processes has been studied, particularly in the case of one-dimensional
diffusion processes, by W. Feller, K. Itô, and H. P. McKean, among
others. In this book, Itô discussed a case of a general Markov process
with state space S and a specified point a ∈ S called a boundary. The
problem is to obtain all possible recurrent extensions of a given
minimal process (i.e., the process on S \ {a} which is absorbed on
reaching the boundary a). The study in this lecture is restricted to a
simpler case of the boundary a being a discontinuous entrance point,
leaving a more general case of a continuous entrance point to future
works. He established a one-to-one correspondence between a recurrent
extension and a pair of a positive measure k(db) on S \ {a} (called the
jumping-in measure and a non-negative number m