M. Yang et al., THE MEAN FIRST-PASSAGE TIME FOR NONLINEAR NON-MARKOVIAN CONTINUOUS NOISE, Communications in Theoretical Physics, 24(3), 1995, pp. 305-310
A method for calculating the mean first-passage time for non-Markovian
free processes driven by continuous noise is generalized to free proc
ess X(t) = g[F(t)] and unfree process X(t) = f[X(t)]g[F(t)] with nonli
near noise. When the switch distribution is rectangular, the exact ana
lytic expressions of the mean first-passage time for free process X(t)
= [F(t)](m) driven by nonlinear noise and X(t) = -k[X(t)](n)[F(t)](m)
+[F(t)](m) driven by both multiplicative and nonlinear additive noises
are also given.