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Comment on noise and bifurcations. (English) Zbl 0925.58071

Summary: We calculate in exact form the first correction in a parameter measuring the strength of the noise to the effective potential for one-variable diffusion processes. The use of this potential to study transitions is discussed.

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37G99 Local and nonlocal bifurcation theory for dynamical systems
82C31 Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
37D45 Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior
37J40 Perturbations of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, normal forms, small divisors, KAM theory, Arnol’d diffusion
70L05 Random vibrations in mechanics of particles and systems
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