English

Generalized Geometric Brownian motion and the Infinite Ergodicity concept

Statistical Mechanics 2026-02-18 v1

Abstract

We investigate stochastic processes that generalize geometric Brownian motion, focusing on cases where the standard invariant measure, i.e. the solution of the stationary Fokker-Planck equation does not necessarily exist. We demonstrate that the existence of such a measure depends sensitively on the structure of the drift and diffusion terms, as well as on the chosen discretization scheme of the underlying stochastic dynamics. To ground our discussion, we draw motivation from phenomenological models in statistical theories of turbulence, where geometric Brownian motion serves as a classical example. To address situations where the standard invariant measure fails to exist, we heuristically explore the concept of infinite ergodicity, a notion recently introduced in the context of statistical physics for drift-diffusion stochastic processes.

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@article{arxiv.2602.15494,
  title  = {Generalized Geometric Brownian motion and the Infinite Ergodicity concept},
  author = {S. Giordano and R. Blossey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.15494},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Accepted author manuscript for the themed issue "Ergodicity and ergodicity breaking in the sciences" in the Philosophical Transactions A