Redundant basis interpretation of Doi-Peliti method and an application

Abstract

The Doi-Peliti method is effective for investigating classical stochastic processes, and it has wide applications, including field theoretic approaches. Furthermore, it is applicable not only to master equations but also to stochastic differential equations; one can derive a kind of discrete process from stochastic differential equations. A remarkable fact is that the Doi-Peliti method is related to a different analytical approach, i.e., generating function. The connection with the generating function approach helps to understand the derivation of discrete processes from stochastic differential equations. Here, a redundant basis interpretation for the Doi-Peliti method is proposed, which enables us to derive different types of discrete processes. The conventional correspondence with the generating function approach is also extended. The proposed extensions give us a new tool to study stochastic differential equations. As an application of the proposed interpretation, we perform numerical experiments for a finite-state approximation of the derived discrete process from the noisy van der Pol system; the redundant basis yields reasonable results compared with the conventional discrete process with the same number of states.