Special Session 4: Control and Optimization

Synchronisation by noise for the stochastic quantisation equation in dimensions 2 and 3

Pavlos Tsatsoulis
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Benjamin Gess
Abstract:
The stochastic quantisation equation (also known as stochastic Allen-Cahn equation) in dimensions two and three is given by \begin{equation} \begin{cases} & (\partial_t - \Delta) u = - \left(u^3 - 3\infty u\right) + u + \xi \ & u|_{t=0} = f, \end{cases} \tag{SQE} \label{eq:sqe} \end{equation} where $\xi$ is space-time white noise and $f$ is some initial condition of suitable regularity. Here, the term $-3\infty u$ is reminiscent of renormalisation, otherwise \eqref{eq:sqe} is not well-posed in dimensions two and three due to the low regularity of space-time white noise. It is known that the deterministic analogon \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} & (\partial_t - \Delta) u = - u^3 + u \ & u|_{t=0} = f \end{cases} \end{equation*} of \eqref{eq:sqe} has finitely many unstable solutions. In this talk I will discuss how the presence of noise implies uniform synchronisation, that is, any two trajectories approach each other with speed which is uniform in the initial condition. More precisely, I will explain how a combination of ``coming down from infinity`` estimates and order-preservation can be used to obtain uniform synchronisation with rates. This will be a special case of a more general framework which implies quantified synchronisation by noise for white noise stochastic semi-flows taking values in H\older spaces of negative exponent. The talk is based on a joint work with Benjamin Gess.