Suzuki, Masuo; Sasagawa, Fumiyoshi; Kaneko, Kunihiko; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 105 (1981) 3, pp. 631-641
The variational principle of Glansdorff and Prigogine is formulated for stochastic processes and the relation between this method and the rate equation method is discussed in a certain frame-work of variational functions. An application is given to the Fokker-Planck equation to describe the...