Abstract
We study damped geodesic motion of a particle of mass m on a Riemannian manifold, in the presence of an external force and noise. Lifting the resulting stochastic differential equation to the orthogonal frame bundle, we prove that, as m→ 0 , its solutions converge to solutions of a limiting equation which includes a noise-induced drift term. A very special case of the main result presents Brownian motion on the manifold as a limit of inertial systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 707-755 |
| Number of pages | 49 |
| Journal | Annales Henri Poincare |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Mathematical Physics