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Importance sampling, Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations

We can solve the equation for w(y,t) by making a Fourier transform to momentum space. The PDF w(x,t) is related to its Fourier transform ˜w(k,t) through

w(x,t)=dkexp(ikx)˜w(k,t),

and using the definition of the δ-function

δ(x)=12πdkexp(ikx),

we see that

˜w(k,0)=1/2π.