On the behaviour of stochastic heat equations on bounded domains

Abstract

Consider the following equation ∂tut(x) = 1 2 ∂xxut(x) + λσ(ut(x))W˙ (t, x) on an interval. Under Dirichlet boundary condition, we show that in the long run, the second moment of the solution grows exponentially fast if λ is large enough. But if λ is small, then the second moment eventually decays exponentially. If we replace the Dirichlet boundary condition by the Neumann one, then the second moment grows exponentially fast no matter what λ is. We also provide various extensions.

Research supported in part by the European Union programme FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG under grant agreement 333938.