Regularization by noise and stochastic Burgers equations (Q487662)

The paper introduces a generalization of the Burgers equation driven by the random spatiotemporal noise source, \(\xi(t,x)\): \[ \partial_t u = -(\partial^2/\partial x^2)^{\theta} u + \partial_x(u^2) + (\partial^2/\partial x^2)^{\theta/2}\xi. \] The equation is introduced as a regularized version of the usual stochastic Burgers equation, where rigorous proof of the existence of solutions is problematic because of odd nonlinearity. The analysis provides for a proof of the existence of weak solutions to this equation at \(\theta > 1/2\). For \(\theta > 5/4\), the uniqueness is proved too. Relations of this equation to the Cole-Hopf transformation, which provides for the exact linearization of the usual Burgers equation, and to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation equation (the well-known surface-growth model) is considered too.