Kinetic Fokker-Planck Equation vs Kramers Equation

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Is there any difference between the Kinetic Fokker-Planck Equation and Kramers Equation ? I have seen them both used as a name for the Kolmogorov forward equation describing the time evolution for the distribution of the velocity and position of a particle (e.g living in some solvent).

Does the different choice in name have any meaning?

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Well, there are several stochastic process with several different names. Maybe, as you said, the Kinetic Fokker-Planck Equation is just the Kramers equation, which is basically a Brownian particle in the phase space, i.e, in the space of position $X$ and momentum $P$. In this equation, the kinetic term is taken into account, which is the first term in the following PDE:

\begin{align} \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t} = -\frac{P}{M}\left[\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial X}\right]+ \gamma\left[\frac{\partial \left(P\rho\right)}{\partial P}\right] +D\left[\frac{\partial^2 \rho}{\partial P^2}\right]. \end{align}

For example, take a look in the following reference eq. 1.1) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05994.pdf