Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-10-29
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Submitted to Inverse Problems
Scientific paper
10.1088/0266-5611/20/4/004
This paper explores the reconstruction of drift or diffusion coefficients of a scalar stochastic diffusion processes as it starts from an initial value and reaches, for the first time, a threshold value. We show that the distribution function derived from repeated measurements of the first-exit times can be used to formally partially reconstruct the dynamics of the process. Upon mapping the relevant stochastic differential equations (SDE) to the associated Sturm-Liouville problem, results from Gelfand and Levitan \cite{GelLev-51} can be used to reconstruct the potential of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, which is related to the drift and diffusion functionals of the SDE. We show that either the drift or the diffusion term of the stochastic equation can be uniquely reconstructed, but only if both the drift and diffusion are known in at least half of the domain. No other information can be uniquely reconstructed unless additional measurements are provided. Applications and implementations of our results are discussed.
Bal Guillaume
Chou T. T.
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