KPZ equation, its renormalization and invariant measures

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DOI10.1007/S40072-015-0046-XzbMATH Open1327.60128arXiv1407.7310OpenAlexW2092653443WikidataQ115375312 ScholiaQ115375312MaRDI QIDQ744874FDOQ744874


Authors: Tadahisa Funaki, J. D. Quastel Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 October 2015

Published in: Stochastic and Partial Differential Equations. Analysis and Computations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation is a stochastic partial differential equation which is ill-posed because the nonlinearity is marginally defined with respect to the roughness of the forcing noise. However, its Cole-Hopf solution, defined as the logarithm of the solution of the linear stochastic heat equation (SHE) with a multiplicative noise, is a mathematically well-defined object. In fact, Hairer [13] has recently proved that the solution of SHE can actually be derived through the Cole-Hopf transform of the solution of the KPZ equation with a suitable renormalization under periodic boundary conditions. This transformation is unfortunately not well adapted to studying the invariant measures of these Markov processes. The present paper introduces a different type of regularization for the KPZ equation on the whole line mathbbR or under periodic boundary conditions, which is appropriate from the viewpoint of studying the invariant measures. The Cole-Hopf transform applied to this equation leads to an SHE with a smeared noise having an extra complicated nonlinear term. Under time average and in the stationary regime, it is shown that this term can be replaced by a simple linear term, so that the limit equation is the linear SHE with an extra linear term with coefficient 1/24. The methods are essentially stochastic analytic: The Wiener-It^o expansion and a similar method for establishing the Boltzmann-Gibbs principle are used. As a result, it is shown that the distribution of a two-sided geometric Brownian motion with a height shift given by Lebesgue measure is invariant under the evolution determined by the SHE on mathbbR.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7310




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