The dynamical sine-Gordon model

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Abstract: We introduce the dynamical sine-Gordon equation in two space dimensions with parameter , which is the natural dynamic associated to the usual quantum sine-Gordon model. It is shown that when the Wick renormalised equation is well-posed. In the regime , the Da Prato-Debussche method applies, while for , the solution theory is provided via the theory of regularity structures (Hairer 2013). We also show that this model arises naturally from a class of 2+1-dimensional equilibrium interface fluctuation models with periodic nonlinearities. The main mathematical difficulty arises in the construction of the model for the associated regularity structure where the role of the noise is played by a non-Gaussian random distribution similar to the complex multiplicative Gaussian chaos recently analysed by Lacoin, Rhodes and Vargas (2013).


In this paper, the authors aimed to solve the following periodic nonlinear SPDEs on the two-dimensional torus \(T^2\): \[ \partial_t u = \frac 1 2 \Delta u + c\sin(\beta u+\theta) + \xi_t, \] where \(c\), \(\beta\), \(\theta\) are constants and \(\xi\) is the space-time white noise. The solution is constructed by solving a regular SPDE with \(\xi\) replaced by \(\xi_\epsilon:= \xi* \rho_\epsilon\) for a smooth probability density \(\rho\) with compact support and \(\rho_\epsilon(t,x):= \epsilon^{-4}\rho(\epsilon^{-2} t, \epsilon^{-1}x)\), then letting \(\epsilon \to 0\) to approach a process which is independent of \(\rho\). More generally, consider \[ \partial_t u = \frac 1 2 \Delta u + c_\epsilon F_\beta(u_\epsilon) + \xi_\epsilon, \] where \(F_\beta\) is a trigonometric polynomial of the form \[ F_\beta(u) =\sum_{k=1}^N \zeta_k\sin(k\beta u+\theta_k) \] for \(N\in \mathbb N\) and constants \(\zeta_k, \beta, \theta_k\). As a main result, it is proved that, for \(\beta\in (0, \frac{4\pi}{3})\), \(\eta\in (-\frac{1}{3},0)\), and \(u_0\in C^\eta(T^2)\), there exists a constant \(C\), depending only on \(\beta\) and \(\rho\), such that the solution \(u_\epsilon\) to the equation for \(c_\epsilon= C\epsilon^{-\beta^2/(4\pi)}\) converges in probability to a distributional process \(u\) which is independent of the choice of \(\rho\), which is understood as a solution to the original SPDE.




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