Pathwise Global-in-Time Existence for the generalised KPZ Equation in the Full Subcritical Regime

Abstract

We provide a pathwise proof of global-in-time well-posedness for the generalised KPZ equation in the full subcritical regime by an adaptation of the strategy recently applied to the generalised Parabolic Anderson Model in [ES26]. Since this strategy relies crucially on the assumption that control of the supremum norm is sufficient to continue the solution, the main additional ingredient required is a treatment of the initial layer for gKPZ with merely $L^\infty$ initial data, rather than the more usual setting of $C^\theta$ initial data with $\theta > 0$. Our approach is based on an expansion around a deterministic profile followed by the introduction of an integrating factor in order to remove the terms which have critical scaling at time $0$. For pedagogical purposes, we first demonstrate the proof techniques in the case of the standard $(1+1)$-dimensional KPZ equation before turning to the more computationally involved case of generalised KPZ.