Random perturbation to the geodesic equation

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Abstract: We study random "perturbation" to the geodesic equation. The geodesic equation is identified with a canonical differential equation on the orthonormal frame bundle driven by a horizontal vector field of norm 1. We prove that the projections of the solutions to the perturbed equations, converge, after suitable rescaling, to a Brownian motion scaled by frac8n(n−1) where n is the dimension of the state space. Their horizontal lifts to the orthonormal frame bundle converge also, to a scaled horizontal Brownian motion.


The paper deals with a geodesic equation which is represented by a canonical differential equation on the orthonormal frame bundle. Now, consider the randomly perturbed equation and let \(n\) be the dimension of the state space. It is shown that after some rescaling its limit is a Brownian motion scaled by \(\frac{8}{n(n-1)}\). A further result is the convergence of the horizontal lifts to the orthonormal frame bundle. The limit in this case is also a scaled Brownian motion.



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