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Solution of Fokker-Planck equation for a broad class of drift and diffusion coefficients
1Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná 87020-900, Brazil. kwok@dfi.uem.br
Abstract:
A Langevin equation with variable drift and diffusion coefficients separable in time and space and its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation in the Stratonovich approach are considered. From this Fokker-Planck equation a class of exact solutions with the same spatial drift and diffusion coefficients is obtained. Furthermore, some details of this system are analyzed by using the spatial diffusion coefficient D(x) = sqrt[D]|x|(-θ/2).
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