Singular perturbations to semilinear stochastic heat equations (Q664350)

The authors consider a class of singular perturbations to the stochastic heat equation or semilinear variations thereof. The interesting feature of these perturbations is that, as the small parameter \(\epsilon \) tends to zero, their solutions converge to the `wrong' limit, i.e., they do not converge to the solution obtained by simply setting \(\varepsilon = 0\). A similar effect is also observed for some (formally) small stochastic perturbations of a deterministic semilinear parabolic PDE. The proofs are based on a detailed analysis of the spatially rough component of the equations, combined with a judicious use of Gaussian concentration inequalities.