Superdiffusion and anomalous regularization in self-similar random incompressible flows
Abstract
We study the long-time behavior of a particle in , , subject to molecular diffusion and advection by a random incompressible flow. The velocity field is the divergence of a stationary random stream matrix with positive Hurst exponent , so the resulting random environment is multiscale and self-similar. In the perturbative regime , we prove quenched power-law superdiffusion: for a typical realization of the environment, the displacement variance at time grows like , the scaling predicted by renormalization group heuristics. We also identify the leading prefactor up to a random (quenched) relative error of order . The proof implements a Wilsonian renormalization group scheme at the level of the infinitesimal generator , based on a self-similar induction across scales. We demonstrate that the coarse-grained generator is well-approximated, at each scale , by a constant-coefficient Laplacian with effective diffusivity growing like . This approximation is inherently scale-local: reflecting the multifractal nature of the environment, the relative error does not decay with the scale, but remains of order . We also prove anomalous regularization under the quenched law: for almost every realization of the drift, solutions of the associated elliptic equation are H\"older continuous with exponent and satisfy estimates which are uniform in the molecular diffusivity and the scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.22142,
title = {Superdiffusion and anomalous regularization in self-similar random incompressible flows},
author = {Scott Armstrong and Ahmed Bou-Rabee and Tuomo Kuusi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.22142},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
155 pages, announcement at https://www.scottnarmstrong.com/2026/01/superdiffusivity-anomalous-regularization/