Related papers: Initial measures for the stochastic heat equation
We give a new proof of the fact that the solutions of the stochastic heat equation, started with non-negative initial conditions, are strictly positive at positive times. The proof uses concentration of measure arguments for discrete…
We study the stochastic heat equation (SHE) $\partial_t u = \frac12 \Delta u + \beta u \xi$ driven by a multiplicative L\'evy noise $\xi$ with positive jumps and amplitude $\beta>0$, in arbitrary dimension $d\geq 1$. We prove the existence…
Let $\left(u(t,x), t\geq 0, x\in \mathbb{R}^d\right)$ be the solution to the stochastic heat or wave equation driven by a Gaussian noise which is white in time and white or correlated with respect to the spatial variable. We consider the…
We study the compact support property for solutions of the following stochastic partial differential equations: $$\partial_t u = a^{ij}u_{x^ix^j}(t,x)+b^{i}u_{x^i}(t,x)+cu+h(t,x,u(t,x))\dot{F}(t,x),\quad (t,x)\in…
We consider the linear stochastic wave equation with spatially homogenous Gaussian noise, which is fractional in time with index $H>1/2$. We show that the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the solution is a relaxation…
We consider a nonlinear stochastic heat equation in spatial dimension $d=2$, forced by a white-in-time multiplicative Gaussian noise with spatial correlation length $\varepsilon>0$ but divided by a factor of $\sqrt{\log\varepsilon^{-1}}$.…
We consider the stochastic partial differential equation, $\partial_t u = \tfrac12 \partial^2_x u + b(u) + \sigma(u) \dot{W},$ where $u=u(t\,,x)$ is defined for $(t\,,x)\in(0\,,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}$, and $\dot{W}$ denotes space-time…
This is a preliminary announcement of results in the PhD. thesis of the first author concerning the nonlinear stochastic heat equation in the spatial domain $\R$, driven by space-time white noise. A central special case is the parabolic…
In this article, we consider the stochastic heat equation $du=(\Delta u+f(t,x))dt+ \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} g^{k}(t,x) \delta \beta_t^k, t \in [0,T]$, with random coefficients $f$ and $g^k$, driven by a sequence $(\beta^k)_k$ of i.i.d.…
For every $R>0$, consider the stochastic heat equation $\partial_{t} u_{R}(t\,,x)=\tfrac12 \Delta_{S_{R}^{2}}u_{R}(t\,,x)+\sigma(u_{R}(t\,,x)) \xi_{R}(t\,,x)$ on $S_{R}^{2}$, where $\xi_{R}=\dot{W_{R}}$ are centered Gaussian noises with the…
Consider the heat equation driven by a smooth, Gaussian random potential: \begin{align*} \partial_t u_{\varepsilon}=\tfrac12\Delta u_{\varepsilon}+u_{\varepsilon}(\xi_{\varepsilon}-c_{\varepsilon}), \ \ t>0, x\in\mathbb{R}, \end{align*}…
We consider the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative white noise: $\partial_t u =\partial_x^2u + b(u) +\sigma(u) \dot W$, both on $[0,1]$ and $\mathbf{R}$. In the case of $[0,1]$ we show that the finite Osgood criterion on $b$ is a…
We consider the family of stochastic partial differential equations indexed by a parameter $\eps\in(0,1]$, \begin{equation*} Lu^{\eps}(t,x) = \eps\sigma(u^\eps(t,x))\dot{F}(t,x)+b(u^\eps(t,x)), \end{equation*} $(t,x)\in(0,T]\times\Rd$ with…
Consider a parabolic stochastic PDE of the form $\partial_t u=\frac{1}{2}\Delta u + \sigma(u)\eta$, where $u=u(t\,,x)$ for $t\ge0$ and $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$, $\sigma:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ is Lipschitz continuous and non random, and $\eta$…
We obtain uniqueness and existence of a solution $u$ to the following second-order stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) : \begin{align} \label{abs eqn} du= \left( \bar a^{ij}(\omega,t)u_{x^ix^j}+ f \right)dt + g^k dw^k_t, \quad t…
We approximate the white-noise driven stochastic heat equation by replacing the fractional Laplacian by the generator of a discrete time random walk on the one dimensional lattice, and approximating white noise by a collection of i.i.d.…
In this paper we study the randomized heat equation with homogeneous boundary conditions. The diffusion coeffcient is assumed to be a random variable and the initial condition is treated as a stochastic process. The solution of this…
For a class of non-linear stochastic heat equations driven by $\alpha$-stable white noises for $\alpha\in(1,2)$ with Lipschitz coefficients, we first show the existence and pathwise uniqueness of $L^p$-valued c\`{a}dl\`{a}g solutions to…
We consider sample path properties of the solution to the stochastic heat equation, in $\mathbb{R}^d$ or bounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^d$, driven by a L\'evy space-time white noise. When viewed as a stochastic process in time with values…
We study the solutions of the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative space-time white noise. We prove a comparison theorem between the solutions of stochastic heat equations with the same noise coefficient which is H\"{o}lder…