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The two-dimensional KPZ equation in the entire subcritical regime

Probability 2019-07-03 v3

Abstract

We consider the KPZ equation in space dimension 2 driven by space-time white noise. We showed in previous work that if the noise is mollified in space on scale ϵ\epsilon and its strength is scaled as β^/logϵ\hat\beta / \sqrt{|\log \epsilon|}, then a transition occurs with explicit critical point β^c=2π\hat\beta_c = \sqrt{2\pi}. Recently Chatterjee and Dunlap showed that the solution admits subsequential scaling limits as ϵ0\epsilon \downarrow 0, for sufficiently small β^\hat\beta. We prove here that the limit exists in the entire subcritical regime β^(0,β^c)\hat\beta \in (0, \hat\beta_c) and we identify it as the solution of an additive Stochastic Heat Equation, establishing so-called Edwards-Wilkinson fluctuations. The same result holds for the directed polymer model in random environment in space dimension 2.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03911,
  title  = {The two-dimensional KPZ equation in the entire subcritical regime},
  author = {Francesco Caravenna and Rongfeng Sun and Nikos Zygouras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03911},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

42 pages, 2 figures. Final version, to appear in AOP