A weak approach to the stochastic deformation of classical mechanics (Q326681)

The aim of the paper is to formulate a correspondence between the classical canonical form of dynamics and stochastic models formulated by means of Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian basic principles. The paper is very well written also for those readers not fully familiar with stochastic mechanics. The authors provide basic information about non-conventional tools needed in the description of stochastic deformation of classical mechanics formulated using Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms. From the viewpoint of physicists Section 3 is the core of the study dealing with a random formulation of mechanics by means of the conventional Lagrangian functional. Related variational problems are provided as an obvious direction for further investigations. This strategy offers the best way for a cooperation with the physical and engineering community, which usually work with variational principles as starting point of theoretical considerations. Theoretical investigations are illustrated by many examples which establish a direct correspondence of classical and stochastic approaches in dynamics of discrete and continuous distributed systems.