A stochastic particle system: Fluctuations around a nonlinear reaction- diffusion equation (Q1108697)

Consider a reaction-diffusion equation on [0,1], where the diffusion is determined by the Laplacian (with reflecting boundary conditions) and the reaction consists of (quadratic) killing. Denote its solution by X. It is shown that for a certain locally interacting measure-valued particle system \(X^{\epsilon}\) (\(\epsilon\) corresponds to the mass of the particles) \(\epsilon^{-1/2}(X^{\epsilon}-X)\) converges weakly to an infinite-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. This (central limit theorem) holds on a bounded time interval, where the upper bound of the time interval is determined by the initial distribution of \(X^{\epsilon}\). A propagation of chaos expansion is used.