Solution

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Multiply the Fokker-Planck equation by and integrate over and all , assuming the required boundary terms vanish. Integration by parts gives
The mixed moment is not determined by : the current strain and the accumulated magnetic field are correlated. Zero mean strain does not imply , so this is an unclosed moment equation.
Keep the strain dependence by defining . The magnetic drift term satisfies
The strain derivatives commute with the integral. Hence
This weighted density obeys a tilted Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Fokker-Planck equation. Its integral over is the desired moment, while retaining makes the evolution closed.

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