80 Lectures on Dynamics of Stochastic Systems
where we included for generality an additional conserved variable I(r, t) satisfying the
equation of continuity (1.86)
∂
∂t
I(r, t) +
∂
∂r
∂H
(
r, t, q, p
)
∂p
I(r, t)
= 0, I
(
r, 0
)
= I
0
(
r
)
. (3.40)
Equations (3.38), (3.40) describe, for example, wave propagation in inhomo-
geneous media within the frames of the geometrical optics approximation of the
parabolic equation of quasi-optics. Differentiating function (3.39) with respect to time
and using dynamic equations for functions q(r, t), p(r, t), U(r, t) and I(r, t), we gene-
rally obtain an unclosed equation containing third-order derivatives of function q(r, t)
with respect to spatial variable r. However, the combination
∂
∂t
+
∂H
(
r, t, q, p
)
∂p
∂
∂r
ϕ(r, t; q, p, U, I)
will not include the third-order derivatives; as a result, we obtain the closed Liouville
equation in space {q, r, U, I}.
3.3 Higher-Order Partial Differential Equations
If the initial dynamic system includes higher-order derivatives (e.g., Laplace opera-
tor), derivation of a closed equation for the corresponding indicator function becomes
impossible. In this case, only the variational differential equation (the Hopf equation)
can be derived in the closed form for the functional whose average over an ensemble
of realizations coincides with the characteristic functional of the solution to the cor-
responding dynamic equation. Consider such a transition using the partial differential
equations considered in Lecture 1 as examples.
3.3.1 Parabolic Equation of Quasi-Optics
The first example concerns wave propagation in random medium within the frames of
linear parabolic equation (1.89), page 39,
∂
∂x
u(x, R) =
i
2k
1
R
u(x, R) +
ik
2
ε(x, R)u(x, R), u(0, R) = u
0
(R). (3.41)
Equation (3.41) as the initial-value problem possesses the property of dynamic
causality with respect to parameter x. Indeed, rewrite this equation in the integral form
u(x, R) = u
0
(R) +
i
2k
x
Z
0
dξ1
R
u(ξ, R) +
ik
2
x
Z
0
dξε(ξ, R)u(ξ, R). (3.42)