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T/ is a Wiener process. The integral of a Gaussian white noise defines a Wiener process. t2 / that follow a Poisson distribution, so that its conditional PDF is given by (see Sect. 23) The Poisson process counts the number of events that have occurred from a set of identical independent possible events with exponential distributions. t/ D k/ D e t . x kD0 k/ D 1 X t e kD0 . 8). t/i D 1 Z X kD0 0 1 xe t . x kŠ k/dx D e t 1 X . 33) and the expansion ex D 1 kD0 x =kŠ. This result says that for a Poisson process the average number of events counted increases linearly with time according to the rate .
T/i D hx0 i. In Chap. 3 we will discuss in detail the differences between the Einstein’s and the Langevin’s approach, since they are essential to understand biological diffusion (and diffusion, in general). 1 Chapman-Kolmogorov Equation As we have seen in Sect. xn ; tn jxn 1 ; tn 1 /. This, however does not mean that these two functions can be chosen arbitrarily, since they must obey two important identities. 16). Integrating Eq. 40) This equation is then a consistency equation for the conditional probabilities of a Markov process.
References 1. : Approximate accelerated stochastic simulation of chemically reacting systems. J. Chem. Phys. 115(4), 1716–1733 (2001). 1378322 2. : A First Course in Probability. 1 Fluctuations and Non-determinism Fluctuating phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. The reader just needs to look at the first plot from Fig. t/ as a function of time. If I would say that this represents the hourly series for the temperature of a city during a whole week you would probably believe it (and this is actually what it is).