Energy solutions of KPZ are unique

Gubinelli, Massimiliano¹ ; Perkowski, Nicolas²

¹ Hausdorff Center for Mathematics & Institute for Applied Mathematics, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
² Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Tome 31 (2018) no. 2, pp. 427-471

Résumé

The Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) equation is conjectured to universally describe the fluctuations of weakly asymmetric interface growth. Here we provide the first intrinsic well-posedness result for the stationary KPZ equation on the real line by showing that its energy solutions, as introduced by Gonçalves and Jara in 2010 and refined by Gubinelli and Jara, are unique. This is the first time that a singular stochastic PDE can be tackled using probabilistic methods, and the combination of the convergence results of the first work and many follow-up papers with our uniqueness proof establishes the weak KPZ universality conjecture for a wide class of models. Our proof builds on an observation of Funaki and Quastel from 2015, and a remarkable consequence is that the energy solution to the KPZ equation is not equal to the Cole–Hopf solution, but it involves an additional drift $t/12$.

Détail

DOI : 10.1090/jams/889

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