On the peaks of a stochastic heat equation on a sphere with a large radius

Abstract: For every

R > 0

, consider the stochastic heat equation

p a r t i a l_{t} u_{R} (t,, x) = f r a c 12 D e l t a_{S_{R}^{2}} u_{R} (t,, x) + s i g m a (u_{R} (t,, x)) x i_{R} (t,, x)

on

S_{R}^{2}

, where

x i_{R} = d o t W_{R}

are centered Gaussian noises with the covariance structure given by

E [d o t W_{R} (t, x) d o t W_{R} (s, y)] = h_{R} (x, y) d e l t a_{0} (t - s)

, where

h_{R}

is symmetric and semi-positive definite and there exist some fixed constants

- 2 < C_{h_{u p}} < 2

and

f r a c 12 C_{h_{u p}} - 1 < C_{h_{l o}} l e C_{h_{u p}}

such that for all

R > 0

and

x,, y i n S_{R}^{2}

,

(l o g R)^{C_{h_{l o}} / 2} = h_{l o} (R) l e q h_{R} (x, y) l e q h_{u p} (R) = (l o g R)^{C_{h_{u p}} / 2}

,

D e l t a_{S_{R}^{2}}

denotes the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on

S_{R}^{2}

and

s i g m a : R m a p s t o R

is Lipschitz continuous, positive and uniformly bounded away from

0

and

i n f t y

. Under the assumption that

u_{R, 0} (x) = u_{R} (0,, x)

is a nonrandom continuous function on

x i n S_{R}^{2}

and the initial condition that there exists a finite positive

U

such that

s u p_{R > 0} s u p_{x i n S_{R}^{2}} v e r t u_{R, 0} (x) v e r t l e U

, we prove that for every finite positive

t

, there exist finite positive constants

C_{l o w} (t)

and

C_{u p} (t)

which only depend on

t

such that as

R o i n f t y

,

s u p_{x i n S_{R}^{2}} v e r t u_{R} (t,, x) v e r t

is asymptotically bounded below by

C_{l o w} (t) (l o g R)^{1 / 4 + C_{h_{l o}} / 4 - C_{h_{u p}} / 8}

and asymptotically bounded above by

C_{u p} (t) (l o g R)^{1 / 2 + C_{h_{u p}} / 4}

with high probability.

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