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Superdiffusion and anomalous regularization in self-similar random incompressible flows

Probability 2026-01-30 v1 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study the long-time behavior of a particle in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, d2d \geq 2, subject to molecular diffusion and advection by a random incompressible flow. The velocity field is the divergence of a stationary random stream matrix k\mathbf{k} with positive Hurst exponent γ>0\gamma > 0, so the resulting random environment is multiscale and self-similar. In the perturbative regime γ1\gamma \ll 1, we prove quenched power-law superdiffusion: for a typical realization of the environment, the displacement variance at time tt grows like t2/(2γ)t^{2/(2-\gamma)}, the scaling predicted by renormalization group heuristics. We also identify the leading prefactor up to a random (quenched) relative error of order γ12logγ3\gamma^{\frac12}\left| \log \gamma \right|^3. The proof implements a Wilsonian renormalization group scheme at the level of the infinitesimal generator (νId+k)\nabla \cdot (\nu I_d + \mathbf{k} ) \nabla, based on a self-similar induction across scales. We demonstrate that the coarse-grained generator is well-approximated, at each scale rr, by a constant-coefficient Laplacian with effective diffusivity growing like rγr^\gamma. 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 γ12logγ2\gamma^{\frac12}\left| \log \gamma \right|^2. 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 1Cγ121 - C\gamma^{\frac12} and satisfy estimates which are uniform in the molecular diffusivity ν\nu and the scale.

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@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/

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