10/05/2023, 17:00 — 18:00 — Online
Kevin Yang, UC Berkeley
Universality and well-posedness for a time-inhomogeneous KPZ equation
The KPZ equation is a model for non-equilibrium interface fluctuations that comes from perturbing a Gaussian Langevin dynamic by a slope-dependent nonlinearity. An associated universality problem is whether or not the same model comes from (scaling limits of) perturbing non-Gaussian "Ginzburg-Landau" SDEs by a slope-dependent nonlinearity. One goal of this talk is to give a "fluctuation version" of Yau's relative entropy method to resolve this problem for a general class of non-Gaussian potentials. The microscopic models considered also have a non-equilibrium flavor that leads to a time-inhomogeneous KPZ equation, which introduces its own interesting mathematics at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels.
