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Stochastic processes with distributed delays: chemical Langevin equation and linear-noise approximation

Statistical Mechanics 2013-12-13 v2 Quantitative Methods

Abstract

We develop a systematic approach to the linear-noise approximation for stochastic reaction systems with distributed delays. Unlike most existing work our formalism does not rely on a master equation, instead it is based upon a dynamical generating functional describing the probability measure over all possible paths of the dynamics. We derive general expressions for the chemical Langevin equation for a broad class of non-Markovian systems with distributed delay. Exemplars of a model of gene regulation with delayed auto-inhibition and a model of epidemic spread with delayed recovery provide evidence of the applicability of our results.

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@article{arxiv.1302.7166,
  title  = {Stochastic processes with distributed delays: chemical Langevin equation and linear-noise approximation},
  author = {Tobias Brett and Tobias Galla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.7166},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages, 7 figures

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