Itô versus Stratonovich white-noise limits for systems with inertia and colored multiplicative noise
- Creators
- Kupferman, R.
- Pavliotis, G. A.
- Stuart, A. M.
Abstract
We consider the dynamics of systems in the presence of inertia and colored multiplicative noise. We study the limit where the particle relaxation time and the correlation time of the noise both tend to zero. We show that the limiting equation for the particle position depends on the magnitude of the particle relaxation time relative to the noise correlation time. In particular, the limiting equation should be interpreted either in the Itô or Stratonovich sense, with a crossover occurring when the two fast-time scales are of comparable magnitude. At the crossover the limiting stochastic differential equation is neither of Itô nor of Stratonovich type. This means that, after adiabatic elimination, the governing equations have different drift fields, leading to different physical behavior depending on the relative magnitude of the two fast-time scales. Our findings are supported by numerical simulations.
Additional Information
© 2004 American Physical Society. Received 28 October 2003; published 29 September 2004. The authors are grateful to D. Cai and J.C. Mattingly for useful suggestions. They are also grateful to J.M. Sancho for useful suggestions and for providing them with Refs. [3,11] and to P.R. Kramer for a very careful reading of an earlier version of this paper. G.A.P. and A.M.S. are grateful to EPSRC for financial support. R.K. was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and in part by the Applied Mathematical Sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76-SF00098.Attached Files
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- 78112
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Israel Science Foundation
- DE-AC03-76-SF00098
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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2017-06-12Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Other Numbering System Name
- Andrew Stuart
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- J60