“…We will say that an SDE on a manifold driven by ‐dimensional Brownian motion is defined by choosing at each point and time a smooth map For a given time interval and starting point , we may then define a process, , by requiring that at times we have We define if . In the case of autonomous SDEs (where is independent of , it is shown in that converges in mean square on compacts to a unique process so long as the choice of at each point is made smoothly. Moreover, the limiting process depends only on the 2‐jet of at each point and coincides with the solution to the SDE given in a local chart by …”