2102.08837
Formulation of Stochastic Contact Hamiltonian Systems
Pingyuan Wei, Zibo Wang
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Both the paper and the model establish that the stochastic flow φ_t of the Stratonovich contact Hamiltonian SDE preserves the contact structure conformally, with φ_t^*η = λ_t η and λ_t = exp(−∫_{t0}^t ∂H0/∂z dτ − Σ_k ∫_{t0}^t ∂Hk/∂z ∘ dB_τ^k), exactly as stated in Theorem 3.2 of the uploaded paper . The model achieves this via Kunita’s pullback formula for Stratonovich flows and the computation L_{X_H}η = −R(H)η in Darboux coordinates, yielding the same exponential factor. The paper’s proof proceeds by differentiating the flow with respect to initial data and solving a scalar linear Stratonovich SDE for λ_t (equations (3.10)–(3.13)) . Minor internal sign inconsistencies exist between the intrinsic relations (2.1) and the stated local expression (2.4) as well as Remark 3.1 , but these do not affect the main theorem’s statement nor the conformal factor used there.
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\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions
\textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid
\textbf{Justification:}
The main theorem—preservation of the contact structure up to a conformal factor for stochastic contact Hamiltonian flows—is correct and well-motivated. The result parallels Bismut-type structure preservation in the symplectic setting and is likely to be useful for stochastic modeling in contact geometry. However, several sign-convention inconsistencies (between intrinsic and local formulations) and implicit assumptions about the stochastic flow on manifolds should be corrected or made explicit for full rigor.