Spatial ergodicity for SPDEs via Poincaré-type inequalities
Spatial ergodicity for SPDEs via Poincaré-type inequalities
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DOI:
10.1214/21-ejp690
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发表时间:
2019-07
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1.4
通讯作者:
Le Chen;D. Khoshnevisan;D. Nualart;Fei Pu
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作者:
Le Chen;D. Khoshnevisan;D. Nualart;Fei Pu
Consider a parabolic stochastic PDE of the form ∂tu = 1 2 ∆u+ σ(u)η, where u = u(t , x) for t ≥ 0 and x ∈ R, σ : R → R is Lipschitz continuous and non random, and η is a centered Gaussian noise that is white in time and colored in space, with a possibly-signed homogeneous spatial correlation f . If, in addition, u(0) ≡ 1, then we prove that, under a mild decay condition on f , the process x 7→ u(t , x) is stationary and ergodic at all times t > 0. It has been argued that, when coupled with moment estimates, spatial ergodicity of u teaches us about the intermittent nature of the solution to such SPDEs [1, 37]. Our results provide rigorous justification of such discussions. Our methods hinge on novel facts from harmonic analysis and functions of positive type, as well as from Malliavin calculus and Poincaré inequalities. We further showcase the utility of these Poincaré inequalities by: (a) describing conditions that ensure that the random field u(t) is mixing for every t > 0; and by (b) giving a quick proof of a conjecture of Conus et al [15] about the “size” of the intermittency islands of u. The ergodicity and the mixing results of this paper are sharp, as they include the classical theory of Maruyama [42] (see also Dym and McKean [23]) in the simple setting where the nonlinear term σ is a constant function. MSC 2010 subject classification: 60H15, 37A25, 60H07, 60G10.