Intermittency in a catalytic random medium

TL;DR

This paper investigates the intermittency phenomena in the parabolic Anderson equation with a space-time random medium influenced by independent random walks, analyzing how Lyapunov exponents depend on dimension and parameters.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the dependence of annealed Lyapunov exponents on dimension and parameters in a catalytic random medium, revealing different intermittency behaviors.

Findings

Different intermittency behaviors in dimensions 1, 2, 3, and ≥4.

Asymptotic behavior of Lyapunov exponents as diffusion constant varies.

Dependence of growth rates on parameters like ta, , , and .

Abstract

In this paper, we study intermittency for the parabolic Anderson equation $\partial u/\partial t=\kappa\Delta u+\xi u$, where $u:\mathbb{Z}^d\times [0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$, $\kappa$ is the diffusion constant, $\Delta$ is the discrete Laplacian and $\xi:\mathbb{Z}^d\times[0,\infty)\to\mathbb {R}$ is a space-time random medium. We focus on the case where $\xi$ is $\gamma$ times the random medium that is obtained by running independent simple random walks with diffusion constant $\rho$ starting from a Poisson random field with intensity $\nu$. Throughout the paper, we assume that $\kappa,\gamma,\rho,\nu\in (0,\infty)$. The solution of the equation describes the evolution of a ``reactant'' $u$ under the influence of a ``catalyst'' $\xi$. We consider the annealed Lyapunov exponents, that is, the exponential growth rates of the successive moments of $u$, and show that they display an interesting dependence on the dimension $d$ and on the parameters $\kappa,\gamma,\rho,\nu$, with qualitatively different intermittency behavior in $d=1,2$, in $d=3$ and in $d\geq4$. Special attention is given to the asymptotics of these Lyapunov exponents for $\kappa\downarrow0$ and $\kappa \to\infty$.