Brownian-time processes: The PDE connection II and the corresponding Feynman-Kac formula

Allouba, Hassan

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03074-X

Brownian-time processes: The PDE connection II and the corresponding Feynman-Kac formula
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Abstract:

We delve deeper into our study of the connection of Brownian-time processes (BTPs) to fourth-order parabolic PDEs, which we introduced in a recent joint article with W. Zheng. Probabilistically, BTPs and their cousins BTPs with excursions form a unifying class of interesting stochastic processes that includes the celebrated IBM of Burdzy and other new intriguing processes and is also connected to the Markov snake of Le Gall. BTPs also offer a new connection of probability to PDEs that is fundamentally different from the Markovian one. They solve fourth-order PDEs in which the initial function plays an important role in the PDE itself, not only as initial data. We connect two such types of interesting and new PDEs to BTPs. The first is obtained by running the BTP and then integrating along its path, and the second type of PDEs is related to what we call the Feynman-Kac formula for BTPs. A special case of the second type is a step towards a probabilistic solution to linearized Cahn-Hilliard and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky type PDEs, which we tackle in an upcoming paper.

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