Relaxation of Moments Derived from a Master Equation
- 15 August 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 45 (4), 1110-1112
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1727723
Abstract
Previous work on the relaxation of moments derived from a master equation has been extended to master equations for joint probability distributions and to nonlinear master equations involving product probability distributions. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the transition probabilities are given to obtain closed moment equations. The special case of a simple one‐term exponential relaxation of the moments is also discussed.Keywords
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