Fractional white-noise limit and paraxial approximation for waves in random media (Q1683785)

The authors undertake an asymptotic analysis of high frequency wave propagation in random media. Two regimes are studied in particular: the paraxial approximation for collimated waves, and the white-noise limit where random fluctuations in the background are well approximated by fractional white noise. The fractional Itô-Schrödinger equation is also derived. The main result is a convergence theorem for an approximate process (pulse front), which is obtained using moment methods. Various properties of the Itô-Schrödinger equation are obtained along the way.