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Comment on bifurcations in fluctuating systems

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We prove, using normal form techniques in a codimension one bifurcation, that the conditional probability of the fast variable conditioned by the slow variables is a Gaussian distribution centered in the center manifold.

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Elphick, C., Jeanneret, M. & Tirapegui, E. Comment on bifurcations in fluctuating systems. J Stat Phys 48, 925–933 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019703

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