The scaling limit for a stochastic PDE and the separation of phases |
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Authors: | T Funaki |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Nagoya University, 464-01 Nagoya, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary We investigate the problem of singular perturbation for a reaction-diffusion equation with additive noise (or a stochastic partial differential equation of Ginzburg-Landau type) under the situation that the reaction term is determined by a potential with double-wells of equal depth. As the parameter (the temperature of the system) tends to 0, the solution converges to one of the two stable phases and consequently the phase separation is formed in the limit. We derive a stochastic differential equation which describes the random movement of the phase separation point. The proof consists of two main steps. We show that the solution stays near a manifoldM
of minimal energy configurations based on a Lyapunov type argument. Then, the limit equation is identified by introducing a nice coordinate system in a neighborhood ofM
.Research partially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
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Keywords: | 60H15 60K35 35R60 82C24 |
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