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We study a quite general class of stochastic dispersive equations with linear multiplicative noise, including especially the Schr\"odinger and Airy equations. The pathwise Strichartz and local smoothing estimates are derived here in both…
We perturb with an additive Gaussian white noise the Hamiltonian system associated to a cubic anharmonic oscillator. The stochastic system is assumed to start from initial conditions that guarantee the existence of a periodic solution for…
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