Rigorous Malliavin Calculus versus Guerra's stochastic action principles

Gavriel Segre

Published Apr 11, 2001• 0 citations

Abstract

Since brownian motion can't be defined on a differentiable manifold without assigning on it a riemannian metric by which it depends, Guerra's and coworkers' approach to the definition of the stochastic action in the framework of Stochastic Mechanics is completelly inconsistent

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