Special Session 158: From PDE control to the qualitative study of (random) dynamical systems

Holomorphic regularity of processes generated by the heat equation with white noise boundary data
Marius Tucsnak
University of Bordeaux
France
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Abstract:
We consider the heat equation on a bounded interval with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions driven by independent white noises at the endpoints. Although boundary white-noise forcing is usually associated with very low regularity, we show that the corresponding stochastic evolution in fact exhibits a sharp holomorphic regularity. More precisely, for every positive time the solution extends holomorphically to a rhombus in the complex plane having the original interval as one of its diagonals, and the resulting process admits a continuous version with values in a scale of weighted Bergman spaces on that domain. We determine the precise range of parameters for which this phenomenon holds, indexed by the parameters $\delta\in(0,1)$ and $\Theta\in\left(0,\frac{\pi}{4}\right)$, and prove that it is optimal: the conclusion fails at the critical values $\delta=0$ and $\Theta=\frac{\pi}{4}$. Our approach combines recent advances on reachability theory for boundary-controlled systems with techniques from Bergman-space theory. In this way, we extend to the stochastic setting the sharp regularity of time continuous trajectories recently developed for deterministic heat equations.