We study the existence and propagation of singularities of the solution to a one-dimensional linear stochastic wave equation driven by an additive Gaussian noise that is white in time and colored in space. Our approach is based on a simultaneous law of the iterated logarithm and general methods for Gaussian processes.
We revisit the paper [Mel86] by R. Melrose, providing a full proof of the main theorem on propagation of singularities for subelliptic wave equations, and linking this result with sub-Riemannian geometry. This result asserts that singularities of subelliptic wave equations only propagate along null-bicharacteristics and abnormal extremal lifts of singular curve. As a new consequence, for x = y and denoting by K G the wave kernel, we obtain that the singular support of the distribution t $rightarrow$ K G (t, x, y) is included in the set of lengths of the normal geodesics joining x and y, at least up to the time equal to the minimal length of a singular curve joining x and y.
We consider the linear stochastic wave equation driven by a Gaussian noise. We show that the solution satisfies a certain form of strong local nondeterminism and we use this property to derive the exact uniform modulus of continuity for the solution.
This article generalizes the small noise cutoff phenomenon to the strong solutions of the stochastic heat equation and the damped stochastic wave equation over a bounded domain subject to additive and multiplicative Wiener and Levy noises in the Wasserstein distance. For the additive noise case, we obtain analogous infinite dimensional results to the respective finite dimensional cases obtained recently by Barrera, Hogele and Pardo (JSP2021), that is, the (stronger) profile cutoff phenomenon for the stochastic heat equation and the (weaker) window cutoff phenomenon for the stochastic wave equation. For the multiplicative noise case, which is studied in this context for the first time, the stochastic heat equation also exhibits profile cutoff phenomenon, while for the stochastic wave equation the methods break down due to the lack of symmetry. The methods rely strongly on the explicit knowledge of the respective eigensystem of the stochastic heat and wave operator and the explicit representation of the stochastic solution flows in terms of stochastic exponentials.
We consider a family of nonlinear stochastic heat equations of the form $partial_t u=mathcal{L}u + sigma(u)dot{W}$, where $dot{W}$ denotes space-time white noise, $mathcal{L}$ the generator of a symmetric Levy process on $R$, and $sigma$ is Lipschitz continuous and zero at 0. We show that this stochastic PDE has a random-field solution for every finite initial measure $u_0$. Tight a priori bounds on the moments of the solution are also obtained. In the particular case that $mathcal{L}f=cf$ for some $c>0$, we prove that if $u_0$ is a finite measure of compact support, then the solution is with probability one a bounded function for all times $t>0$.
We consider a non-linear stochastic wave equation driven by space-time white noise in dimension 1. First of all, we state some results about the intermittency of the solution, which have only been carefully studied in some particular cases so far. Then, we establish a comparison principle for the solution, following the ideas of Mueller. We think it is of particular interest to obtain such a result for a hyperbolic equation. Finally, using the results mentioned above, we aim to show that the solution exhibits a chaotic behavior, in a similar way as was established by Conus, Joseph, and Khoshnevisan for the heat equation. We study the two cases where 1. the initial conditions have compact support, where the global maximum of the solution remains bounded and 2. the initial conditions are bounded away from 0, where the global maximum is almost surely infinite. Interesting estimates are also provided on the behavior of the global maximum of the solution.