Solution

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For a sufficiently regular Itô diffusion with , a density is stationary if and only if it solves the stationary Fokker-Planck equation
with integrable Fokker-Planck probability current and boundary conditions that make its outward flux vanish. Here .
For the displayed parametrization, assume
where , that is symmetric positive semidefinite, and that is antisymmetric. Substituting and the stated into the probability current cancels all terms. The remaining divergence is
because the second derivatives are symmetric in whereas . Thus these conditions, together with the boundary and regularity assumptions, imply stationarity. More generally, the divergence equation above is the exact necessary and sufficient condition; within this construction, and antisymmetric are the standard way to satisfy it.

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