PDE estimates for multi-dimensional KPZ equation

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Authors Jeremie Unterberger

Publication date 8 July 2013

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: We study in this series of articles the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation ${\displaystyle }$ partial_t h(t,x)=

uDelta h(t,x)+lambda V(|

abla h(t,x)|) +sqrt{D}, eta(t,x), qquad xin{mathbb{R}}^d ${\displaystyle }$ in $dge1$ dimensions. The forcing term $eta$ in the right-hand side is a regularized white noise. The deposition rate $V$ is assumed to be isotropic and convex. Assuming $V(0)ge0$, one finds $V(|ablah|)ltimes|ablah{|}^2$ for small gradients, yielding the equation which is most commonly used in the literature. The present article is dedicated to existence results and PDE estimates for the solution. Our results extend in a non-trivial way those previously obtained for the noiseless equation. We prove in particular a comparison principle for sub- and supersolutions of the KPZ equation in new functional spaces containing unbounded functions, implying existence and uniqueness. These new functional spaces made up of functions with "locally bounded averages", generically called $calW$-spaces thereafter, and which may be of interest for the study of parabolic equations in general, allow local or pointwise estimates. The comparison to the linear heat equation through a Cole-Hopf transform is an essential ingredient in the proofs, and our results are accordingly valid only for a function $V$ with at most quadratic growth at infinity.

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