TY - JOUR
T1 - The scaling limit for a stochastic PDE and the separation of phases
AU - Funaki, T.
PY - 1995/6
Y1 - 1995/6
N2 - 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 ε (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 manifold Mε 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 of Mε.
AB - 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 ε (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 manifold Mε 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 of Mε.
KW - Mathematics Subject Classification: 60H15, 60K35, 35R60, 82C24
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U2 - 10.1007/BF01213390
DO - 10.1007/BF01213390
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21844513537
VL - 102
SP - 221
EP - 288
JO - Probability Theory and Related Fields
JF - Probability Theory and Related Fields
SN - 0178-8051
IS - 2
ER -