Abstract
We formulate a short-time expansion for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equationswith spatially dependent diffusion coefficients, derived from stochastic processes with Gaussian white noise, for general values of the discretization parameter 0≤α≤1 of the stochastic integral. The kernel of the Fokker-Planck equation(the propagator) can be expressed as a product of a singular and a regular term. While the singular term can be given in closed form, the regular term can be computed from a Taylor expansion whose coefficients obey simple ordinary differential equations. We illustrate the application of our approach with examples taken from statistical physics and biophysics. Furthermore, we show how our formalism allows us to define a class of stochastic equationswhich can be treated exactly. The convergence of the expansion cannot be guaranteed independently from the discretization parameter α.
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