For the diffusion operator
a continuous adapted process solves the diffusion martingale problem when, for every ,
Here means that the function and its derivatives through order two are bounded and continuous. An equivalent compact-support/local convention is often used for the general martingale problem; the bounded-coefficient setting lets us use the true-martingale convention explicitly. The matrix is interpreted as a covariance matrix in the diffusion formulation, hence is symmetric nonnegative; the displayed operator in any case uses only its symmetric part.
A well-posed martingale problem has existence and uniqueness in law on continuous path space for each specified starting point, or for each initial law in the initial-law formulation. This is uniqueness of the process law, not an assertion of pathwise uniqueness on a prescribed Brownian probability space.