Alex Dunlap (NYU)
Date
Wednesday April 5, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Jeffery Hall, Room 319Probability Seminar
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
Time: 12:00 p.m. Place: Jeffery Hall, Room 319
Speaker: Alex Dunlap (NYU)
Title: The nonlinear stochastic heat equation in the critical dimension
Abstract: I will discuss a two-dimensional stochastic heat equation with a nonlinear noise strength, and consider a limit in which the correlation length of the noise is taken to 0 but the noise is attenuated by a logarithmic factor. The limiting pointwise statistics can be related to a stochastic differential equation in which the diffusivity solves a PDE somewhat reminiscent of the porous medium equation. This relationship is established through the theory of forward-backward SDEs. I will also explain several cases in which the PDE can be solved explicitly, some of which correspond to known probabilistic models. This talk will be based on current joint work with Cole Graham and earlier joint work with Yu Gu.