Long term convergence rate of Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation by Stein's method
Abstract
We consider the following second-order stochastic differential equation on : \begin{equation*} dX_t^m=Y_t^mdt, \quad mdY_t^m=b(X_t^m)dt+\sigma(X_t^m)dB_t-Y^m_tdt, \end{equation*} where and represent the position and velocity of a particle at time , denotes its mass, is the drift field, is the diffusion coefficient, and is a -dimensional standard Brownian motion. The Smoluchowski--Kramers approximation states that as , this system converges to the limiting equation: \begin{equation*} dX_t=b(X_t)dt+\sigma(X_t)dB_t. \end{equation*} Utilizing Stein's method, we prove that the -Wasserstein distance between the invariant distribution of and that of its small-mass limit is of order Particularly, in the one-dimensional case, the convergence rate can be improved to
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@article{arxiv.2602.00875,
title = {Long term convergence rate of Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation by Stein's method},
author = {Shiyu Liu and Wei Liu and Lihu Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.00875},
year = {2026}
}