Session 23. Nonlinear Evolution Equations and their Applications

Finite speed of propagation and waiting times for the stochastic porous medium equation - a unifying approach

Günther Grün, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
The talk is based on a joint work with Julian Fischer (Zürich)
We formulate a criterion on initial data which guarantees that solutions to stochastic porous medium equations with linear multiplicative noise exhibit a waiting time phenomenon almost surely. Up to a logarithmic factor, it coincides with the optimal criterion known from the deterministic setting. A novel iteration technique and stochastic counterparts of weighted integral estimates used in the deterministic setting - these are the key ingredients of our approach, which may be modified to prove basic results on finite speed of propagation, too.
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