Multiscale analysis for traveling-pulse solutions to the stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo equations

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DOI10.1214/21-AAP1759zbMATH Open1501.35114arXiv2002.07234OpenAlexW3006613874MaRDI QIDQ2094567FDOQ2094567


Authors: Katharina Eichinger, Manuel V. Gnann, Christian Kuehn Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 31 October 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the stability of traveling-pulse solutions to the stochastic FitzHughNagumo equations with additive noise. Special attention is given to the effect of small noise on the classical deterministically stable fast traveling pulse. Our method is based on adapting the velocity of the traveling wave by solving a scalar stochastic ordinary differential equation (SODE) and tracking perturbations to the wave meeting a system of a scalar stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) coupled to a scalar ordinary differential equation (ODE). This approach has been recently employed by Kr"uger and Stannat for scalar stochastic bistable reaction-diffusion equations such as the Nagumo equation. A main difference in our situation of an SPDE coupled to an ODE is that the linearization has essential spectrum parallel to the imaginary axis and thus only generates a strongly continuous semigroup. Furthermore, the linearization around the traveling wave is not self-adjoint anymore, so that fluctuations around the wave cannot be expected to be orthogonal in a corresponding inner product. We demonstrate that this problem can be overcome by making use of Riesz instead of orthogonal spectral projections as recently employed in a series of papers by Hamster and Hupkes in case of analytic semigroups. We expect that our approach can also be applied to traveling waves and other patterns in more general situations such as systems of SPDEs with linearizations only generating a strongly continuous semigroup. This provides a relevant generalization as these systems are prevalent in many applications.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07234




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