Ergodic theory of the stochastic Burgers equation

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Yuri Bakhtin, Courant
Fine Hall 214

The stochastic Burgers equation is one of the basic evolutionary SPDEs of Hamilton-Jacobi type related to fluid dynamics and KPZ, among other things. The ergodic properties of the system in the compact space case were understood in 2000's. With my coauthors, Eric Cator, Kostya Khanin, Liying Li, I have been studying the noncompact case. The one force - one solution principle has been proved for positive and zero viscosity. The analysis is based on long-term properties of random Lagrangian action minimizers and polymer measures. The latest addition to the program is the convergence of infinite volume polymer measures to Lagrangian one-sided minimizers in the limit of vanishing viscosity (or, temperature) which results in the convergence of the associated global solutions and invariant measures.