Weak convergence approach for parabolic equations with large, highly oscillatory, random potential

DOI10.1214/14-AIHP637zbMATH Open1343.35019arXiv1304.5005OpenAlexW1504998298MaRDI QIDQ5963218FDOQ5963218

Yu Gu, Guillaume Bal

Publication date: 4 March 2016

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper concerns the macroscopic behavior of solutions to parabolic equations with large, highly oscillatory, random potential. When the correlation function of the random potential satisfies a specific integrability condition, we show that the random solution converges, as the correlation length of the medium tends to zero, to the deterministic solution of a homogenized equation in dimension $dgeq3$. Our derivation is based on a Feynman-Kac probabilistic representation and the Kipnis-Varadhan method applied to weak convergence of Brownian motions in random sceneries. For sufficiently mixing coefficients, we also provide an optimal rate of convergence to the homogenized limit using a quantitative martingale central limit theorem. As soon as the above integrability condition fails, the solution is expected to remain stochastic in the limit of a vanishing correlation length. For a large class of potentials given as functionals of Gaussian fields, we show the convergence of solutions to stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) with multiplicative noise. The Feynman-Kac representation and the corresponding weak convergence of Brownian motions in random sceneries allows us to explain the transition from deterministic to stochastic limits as a function of the correlation function of the random potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5005

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zbMATH Keywords

Feynman-Kac formulaweak convergence methodsBrownian motion in random scenerylarge oscillatory potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Second-order parabolic equations (35K10) PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations (35R60) Martingales with continuous parameter (60G44) Processes in random environments (60K37)

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