{ "id": "1004.3043", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-04-18T17:43:39.000Z", "updated": "2010-04-18T17:43:39.000Z", "title": "A Note on the Smoluchowski-Kramers Approximation for the Langevin Equation with Reflection", "authors": [ "Konstantinos Spiliopoulos" ], "comment": "14 pages, 2 figures", "journal": "Stochastics and Dynamics, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2007 , 141-153", "doi": "10.1142/S0219493707002001", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "According to the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation, the solution of the equation ${\\mu}\\ddot{q}^{\\mu}_t=b(q^{\\mu}_t)-\\dot{q}^{\\mu}_t+{\\Sigma}(q^{\\mu}_t)\\dot{W}_t, q^{\\mu}_0=q, \\dot{q}^{\\mu}_0=p$ converges to the solution of the equation $\\dot{q}_t=b(q_t)+{\\Sigma}(q_t)\\dot{W}_t, q_0=q$ as {\\mu}->0. We consider here a similar result for the Langevin process with elastic reflection on the boundary.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2010-04-18T17:43:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60J60", "60J99", "37A50" ], "keywords": [ "smoluchowski-kramers approximation", "langevin equation", "similar result", "langevin process" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1004.3043S" } } }