(1) Departament de Fisica Tèorica, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain;(2) Present address: Institute for Non-Linear Science, University of California-San Diego, 92093 La Jolla, California
Abstract:
Starting from an intrinsic Langevin equation, we give a geometrical derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation. We also present a method for obtaining a stationary distribution and for deriving potential conditions when the diffusion matrix is singular.