Special Session 16: 

Sharp interface limit for stochastically perturbed mass conserving Allen-Cahn equation

SATOSHI YOKOYAMA
Waseda University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Tadahisa Funaki
Abstract:
In this talk, we introduce the sharp interface limit for a mass conserving Allen-Cahn equation with a small parameter $\epsilon>0$ added an external noise. The stochastic term destroys the precise conservation law, instead the total mass changes like a Brownian motion in time. The evolutional law of the limit hypersurface is described by the mass conserving mean curvature flow with a multiplicative white noise. In order to study the limit, we use the asymptotic expansion method. However, in our case, when $\epsilon$ tends to $0$, each term except the leading term appearing in the expansion of the solution in a small parameter $\epsilon$ diverges. This is because our equation contains the noise which converges to a white noise and the products or the powers of the white noise diverge when $\epsilon$ tends to $0$. We introduce how to control those terms when $\epsilon$ tends to $0$ to obtain our goal. Reference: T. Funaki and S. Yokoyama, Sharp interface limit for stochastically perturbed mass conserving Allen-Cahn equation, to appear in Ann. Probab.