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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

On the Change of Measure for Brownian Processes.

Francis J Pinski

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Francis J PinskiDepartment of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3911-290X

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Abstract

Sometimes, limits can be singular, implying that they take on different values depending on the order of arithmetic operations. In other words, the limit map lacks commutativity. While all such limits are mathematically valid, only one can be the physical limit. The change of measure for Brownian processes illustrates this phenomenon. A substantial body of elegant mathematics centered around continuous-time Brownian processes has been embraced by the physics community to investigate the nonequilibrium and equilibrium thermodynamics of systems composed of atoms and molecules. In this paper, we derive the continuous-time limit of discrete-time Brownian dynamics, specifically focusing on the change of measure. We demonstrate that this result yields the physical limit that differs from the commonly used expression. Consequently, the concepts of "the most probable path", "minimum thermodynamic action", and "the small-noise limit" are unphysical mathematical artifacts.

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Brownian dynamicschange of measuresingular limitstochastic differential equations

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PMID40566181
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