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Improved estimates for the sharp interface limit of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with space-time white noise

Probability 2024-01-25 v2 Numerical Analysis Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We study the sharp interface limit of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with cubic double-well potential and additive space-time white noise ϵσW˙\epsilon^{\sigma}\dot{W} where ϵ>0\epsilon>0 is an interfacial width parameter. We prove that, for sufficiently large scaling constant σ>0\sigma >0, the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation converges to the deterministic Mullins-Sekerka/Hele-Shaw problem for ϵ0\epsilon\rightarrow 0. The convergence is shown in suitable fractional Sobolev norms as well as in the LpL^p-norm for p(2,4]p\in (2, 4] in spatial dimension d=2,3d=2,3. This generalizes the existing result for the space-time white noise to dimension d=3d=3 and improves the existing results for smooth noise, which were so far limited to p(2,2d+8d+2]p\in \left(2, \frac{2d+8}{d+2}\right] in spatial dimension d=2,3d=2,3. As a byproduct of the analysis of the stochastic problem with space-time white noise, we identify minimal regularity requirements on the noise which allow convergence to the sharp interface limit in the H1\mathbb{H}^1-norm and also provide improved convergence estimates for the sharp interface limit of the deterministic problem.

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@article{arxiv.2304.14785,
  title  = {Improved estimates for the sharp interface limit of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with space-time white noise},
  author = {Ľubomír Baňas and Jean Daniel Mukam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14785},
  year   = {2024}
}