Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
2004-06-14
Annals of Probability 2006, Vol. 34, No. 6, 2219-2287
Mathematics
Probability
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000467 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Ins
Scientific paper
10.1214/009117906000000467
In this paper, we study intermittency for the parabolic Anderson equation $\partial u/\partial t=\kappa\Delta u+\xi u$, where $u:\mathbb{Z}^d\times [0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$, $\kappa$ is the diffusion constant, $\Delta$ is the discrete Laplacian and $\xi:\mathbb{Z}^d\times[0,\infty)\to\mathbb {R}$ is a space-time random medium. We focus on the case where $\xi$ is $\gamma$ times the random medium that is obtained by running independent simple random walks with diffusion constant $\rho$ starting from a Poisson random field with intensity $\nu$. Throughout the paper, we assume that $\kappa,\gamma,\rho,\nu\in (0,\infty)$. The solution of the equation describes the evolution of a ``reactant'' $u$ under the influence of a ``catalyst'' $\xi$. We consider the annealed Lyapunov exponents, that is, the exponential growth rates of the successive moments of $u$, and show that they display an interesting dependence on the dimension $d$ and on the parameters $\kappa,\gamma,\rho,\nu$, with qualitatively different intermittency behavior in $d=1,2$, in $d=3$ and in $d\geq4$. Special attention is given to the asymptotics of these Lyapunov exponents for $\kappa\downarrow0$ and $\kappa \to\infty$.
Gärtner Jürgen
Hollander Frank den
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