= 0 h⇣(t)⇣(t0)i = (t t0) ⇣(t) g g p(⇠, t|⇠ o , t o ) @ @t p(⇠, t|⇠ o , t o ) = @ @⇠ [f(⇠, t)p(⇠, t|⇠ o , t o )] + 1 2 @ 2 @⇠ 2 [g2(⇠, t)p(⇠, t|⇠ o , t o )] f(⇠, t) Consider a stochastic differential equation (SDE), with GWN: and - Such Markovian process is called diffusion process in mathematical sense - = constant: Additive noise; other form of : Multiplicative noise - is called drift term Above SDE implies and implied by a partial differential equation satisfied by the conditional PDF , called Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) This FPE has been written using Ito interpretation of the SDE - Another famous way which leads to FPE is Stratonovich interpretation - Both interpretations to the SDE lead to same FPE if noise is additive ^