Stochastic heat equations for infinite strings with values in a manifold

Chen, Xin; Wu, Bo; Zhu, Rongchan; Zhu, Xiangchan

doi:10.1090/tran/8193

Stochastic heat equations for infinite strings with values in a manifold
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Abstract:

In the paper, we construct conservative Markov processes corresponding to the martingale solutions to the stochastic heat equation on $\mathbb {R}^+$ or $\mathbb {R}$ with values in a general Riemannian manifold, which is only assumed to be complete and stochastic complete. This work is an extension of the previous paper of Röckner and the second, third, and fourth authors [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 52 (2020), pp. 2237–2274] on finite volume case.

Moveover, we also obtain some functional inequalities associated to these Markov processes. This implies that on infinite volume case, the exponential ergodicity of the solution of the Ricci curvature is strictly positive and the non-ergodicity of the process if the sectional curvature is negative.

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