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Symmetry of stochastic equations

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

Symmetry methods are by now recognized as one of the main tools to attack deterministic differential equations (both ODEs and PDEs); the situation is quite different for what concerns stochastic differential equations: here, symmetry considerations are of course quite widely used by theoretical physicists, but a rigorous and general theory comparable to the one developed for deterministic equation is still lacking. In the following I will report on some work I have done on symmetries of stochastic (Ito) equations, and how these compare with the symmetries of the associated diffusion (Fokker-Planck) equations.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0401025,
  title  = {Symmetry of stochastic equations},
  author = {Giuseppe Gaeta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0401025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Work prepared for the Kyev SNMP2003 conference proceedings

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