We prove that the viscous Burgers equation has a globally defined smooth solution in all dimensions provided the initial condition and the forcing term are smooth and bounded together with their derivatives. Such solutions may have infinite energy. T
he proof does not rely on energy estimates, but on a combination of the maximum principle and quantitative Schauder estimates. We obtain precise bounds on the sup norm of the solution and its derivatives, making it plain that there is no exponential increase in time. In particular, these bounds are time-independent if the forcing term is zero. To get a classical solution, it suffices to assume that the initial condition and the forcing term have bounded derivatives up to order two.
We study in this series of articles the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation $$ partial_t h(t,x)= uDelta h(t,x)+lambda V(| abla h(t,x)|) +sqrt{D}, eta(t,x), qquad xin{mathbb{R}}^d $$ in $dge 1$ dimensions. The forcing term $eta$ in the right-hand side
is a regularized white noise. The deposition rate $V$ is assumed to be isotropic and convex. Assuming $V(0)ge 0$, one finds $V(| abla h|)ltimes | abla h|^2$ for small gradients, yielding the equation which is most commonly used in the literature. The present article, a continuation of [24], is dedicated to a generalization of the PDE estimates obtained in the previous article to the case of a deposition rate $V$ with polynomial growth of arbitrary order at infinity, for which in general the Cole-Hopf transformation does not allow any more a comparison to the heat equation. The main tool here instead is the representation of $h$ as the solution of some minimization problem through the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman formalism. This sole representation turns out to be powerful enough to produce local or pointwise estimates in ${cal W}$-spaces of functions with locally bounded averages, as in [24], implying in particular global existence and uniqueness of solutions.
We study in this series of articles the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation $$ partial_t h(t,x)= uDelta h(t,x)+lambda V(| abla h(t,x)|) +sqrt{D}, eta(t,x), qquad xin{mathbb{R}}^d $$ in $dge 1$ dimensions. The forcing term $eta$ in the right-hand side
is a regularized white noise. The deposition rate $V$ is assumed to be isotropic and convex. Assuming $V(0)ge 0$, one finds $V(| abla h|)ltimes | abla h|^2$ for small gradients, yielding the equation which is most commonly used in the literature. The present article is dedicated to existence results and PDE estimates for the solution. Our results extend in a non-trivial way those previously obtained for the noiseless equation. We prove in particular a comparison principle for sub- and supersolutions of the KPZ equation in new functional spaces containing unbounded functions, implying existence and uniqueness. These new functional spaces made up of functions with locally bounded averages, generically called ${cal W}$-spaces thereafter, and which may be of interest for the study of parabolic equations in general, allow local or pointwise estimates. The comparison to the linear heat equation through a Cole-Hopf transform is an essential ingredient in the proofs, and our results are accordingly valid only for a function $V$ with at most quadratic growth at infinity.
