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Importance sampling, Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations

We can combine these equations and arrive at the famous Einstein-Smoluchenski-Kolmogorov-Chapman (ESKC) relation

W(\mathbf{x}t|\mathbf{x}_0t_0) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} W(\mathbf{x},t|\mathbf{x}',t')W(\mathbf{x}',t'|\mathbf{x}_0,t_0)d\mathbf{x}'.

We can replace the spatial dependence with a dependence upon say the velocity (or momentum), that is we have

W(\mathbf{v},t|\mathbf{v}_0,t_0) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} W(\mathbf{v},t|\mathbf{v}',t')W(\mathbf{v}',t'|\mathbf{v}_0,t_0)d\mathbf{x}'.