Comparing the stochastic nonlinear wave and heat equations: a case study

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Abstract: We study the two-dimensional stochastic nonlinear wave equation (SNLW) and stochastic nonlinear heat equation (SNLH) with a quadratic nonlinearity, forced by a fractional derivative (of order alpha>0) of a space-time white noise. In particular, we show that the well-posedness theory breaks at alpha=frac12 for SNLW and at alpha=1 for SNLH. This provides a first example showing that SNLW behaves less favorably than SNLH. (i) As for SNLW, Deya (2020) essentially proved its local well-posedness for 0<alpha<frac12. We first revisit this argument and establish multilinear smoothing of order frac14 on the second order stochastic term in the spirit of a recent work by Gubinelli, Koch, and Oh (2018). This allows us to simplify the local well-posedness argument for some range of alpha. On the other hand, when alphageqfrac12, we show that SNLW is ill-posed in the sense that the second order stochastic term is not a continuous function of time with values in spatial distributions. This shows that a standard method such as the Da Prato-Debussche trick or its variant, based on a higher order expansion, breaks down for alphagefrac12. (ii) As for SNLH, we establish analogous results with a threshold given by alpha=1. These examples show that in the case of rough noises, the existing well-posedness theory for singular stochastic PDEs breaks down before reaching the critical values (alpha=frac34 in the wave case and alpha=2 in the heat case) predicted by the scaling analysis (due to Deng, Nahmod, and Yue (2019) in the wave case and due to Hairer (2014) in the heat case).



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