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arXiv2017

Lectures on singular stochastic PDEs

These are the notes for a course at the 18th Brazilian School of Probability held from August 3rd to 9th, 2014 in Mambucaba. The aim of the course is to introduce the basic problems of non--linear PDEs with stochastic and irregular terms. We explain how it is possible to handle them using two main techniques: the notion of energy solutions and that of paracontrolled distributions. In order to maintain a link with physical intuitions, we motivate such singular SPDEs via a homogenisation result for a diffusion in a random potential.

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arXiv2016

Energy solutions of KPZ are unique

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 KPZ equation on the real line by showing that its energy solutions (as introduced by Gonçalves and Jara and later refined by Gubinelli and Jara) are unique. Together with various convergence results already present in the literature, this establishes the weak KPZ universality conjecture for a wide class of models. 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 $t/12$.

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