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Central limit theorem for the Allen-Cahn equation with supercritical random initial conditions

Probability 2026-04-13 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the large-scale behavior of solutions to the Allen-Cahn reaction-diffusion equation with Gaussian initial data. We consider the case of short-range dependence in the associated supercritical regime with spatial dimension d3d \ge 3. Under diffusive rescaling, the non-linearity formally vanishes on large scales in this case. Accordingly, we prove a central limit theorem for the rescaled solution, more precisely, that it converges to the solution of the heat equation started from a white noise. These initial conditions for the limit depend non-trivially both on the source of randomness and on the non-linearity. Our proof uses estimates obtained by a combination of comparison principles and Malliavin calculus, initiated by Castillo and Dunlap in arXiv:2509.06260 in the critical case. However, the result there is not a fluctuation result but rather an LP2L^2_\mathbf{P} comparison to a McKean-Vlasov problem with Gaussian solutions. Hence the mechanism behind the Gaussianity of the limit differs, and the proof requires new ideas that should be further applicable to other supercritical problems.

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@article{arxiv.2604.08623,
  title  = {Central limit theorem for the Allen-Cahn equation with supercritical random initial conditions},
  author = {Colin Piernot and Kexing Ying},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08623},
  year   = {2026}
}

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22 pages

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