Differentiate the product of Dirac delta functions defining , regarding and as independent density arguments. The random continuity equation is
For , the causal functional derivatives follow from the explicit strain solution and :
Consequently,
In the Furutsu–Novikov formula, the covariance samples the upper endpoint of the causal time integral. Symmetric regularization of the white noise gives half the mass there. The response vanishes as , while the strain response tends to one, so . Averaging the continuity equation yields the Fokker-Planck equation
There is no direct diffusion term in : its equation contains the time integral of colored noise, whereas the strain equation receives Gaussian white noise. The same result follows from the Itô diffusion with drift and diffusion vector .
The stationary solution of
is
It follows from the Itô isometry that
Thus is zero-mean colored noise with correlation time . The equation is an overdamped harmonic particle of mobility driven by that correlated random force.