Abstract
The anharmonic oscillator driven by Gaussian noise is studied in the limit of weak damping using the direct perturbation (DPM) and Markov approximation (MAM) methods. Mean values are obtained to first order in the anharmonic coupling constant g. From a careful treatment of the high-frequency behavior it is concluded that to first order in g the DPM takes high-frequency contributions into account whereas the MAM does not, while both agree if high-frequency contributions are not important. It is also shown that both methods give the same results to second order in g for the quartic anharmonic oscillator. The spectral density of the noise used in stochastic electrodynamics is considered as a particular example.
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