144 Lectures on Dynamics of Stochastic Systems
As we mentioned earlier, Eq. (6.7) is unclosed in the general case with respect to
function P(x, t), because quantity
˙
2
t
t, t
0
;
δ
iδf ( y, τ )
δ(x(t) − x)
appeared in averaging brackets depends on the solution x(t) (which is a functional of
random field f ( y, τ )) for all times t
0
< τ < t. However, in some cases, the variational
derivative in Eq. (6.7) can be expressed in terms of ordinary differential operators. In
such conditions, equations like Eq. (6.7) will be the closed equations in the correspon-
ding probability densities. The corresponding examples will be given below.
Proceeding in a similar way, one can obtain the equation similar to Eq. (6.7) for the
m-time probability density that refers to m different instants t
1
< t
2
< · · · < t
m
P
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m
) =
h
ϕ
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m
)
i
, (6.8)
where the indicator function is defined by the equality
ϕ
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m
) = δ(x(t
1
) − x
1
) . . . δ(x(t
m
) − x
m
).
Differentiating Eq. (6.8) with respect to time t
m
and using then dynamic equa-
tion (6.1), one can obtain the equation
∂
∂t
m
+
∂
∂x
m
v(x
m
,t
m
)
P
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m
)
=
˙
2
t
m
t
m
, t
0
;
δ
iδf ( y, τ )
ϕ
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m
)
.
(6.9)
No summation over index m is performed here. The initial value to Eq. (6.9) can be
derived from Eq. (6.8). Setting t
m
= t
m−1
in Eq. (6.8), we obtain the equality
P
m
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m
, t
m−1
) = δ(x
m
− x
m−1
)P
m−1
(x
1
, t
1
; . . . ; x
m−1
, t
m−1
),
which just determines the initial value for Eq. (6.9).
6.2 Completely Solvable Stochastic Dynamic Systems
Consider now several dynamic systems that allow sufficiently adequate statistical ana-
lysis for arbitrary random parameters.
6.2.1 Ordinary Differential Equations
Multiplicative Action
As the first example, we consider the vector stochastic equation with initial value
d
dt
x(t) = z(t)g(t)F(x), x(0) = x
0
, (6.10)