Effect of small noise on the speed of reaction-diffusion equations with non-Lipschitz drift

YMSC probability seminar

Organizers：

吴昊，杨帆，姜建平，顾陈琳，李文博

Speaker：

Zhenyao Sun 孙振尧

BIT

Time：

Thursday, 16:00-17:00

April 23, 2026

Venue：

C548, Shuangqing Complex Building

Title:

Effect of small noise on the speed of reaction-diffusion equations with non-Lipschitz drift

Abstract:

We consider the $[0,1]$-valued solution $(u_{t,x}:t\geq 0, x\in \mathbb R)$ to the one dimensional stochastic reaction diffusion equation with Wright-Fisher noise \[ \partial_t u = \partial_x^2 u + f(u) + \epsilon \sqrt{u(1-u)} \dot W. \] Here, $W$ is a space-time white noise, $\epsilon > 0$ is the noise strength, and $f$ is a continuous function on $[0,1]$ satisfying $\sup_{z\in [0,1]}|f(z)|/ \sqrt{z(1-z)} < \infty.$ We assume the initial data satisfies $1 - u_{0,-x} = u_{0,x} = 0$ for $x$ large enough. Recently, it was proved in (Comm. Math. Phys. \textbf{384} (2021), no. 2) that the front of $u_t$ propagates with a finite deterministic speed $V_{f,\epsilon}$, and under slightly stronger conditions on $f$, the asymptotic behavior of $V_{f,\epsilon}$ was derived as the noise strength $\epsilon$ approaches $\infty$. In this paper we complement the above result by obtaining the asymptotic behavior of $V_{f,\epsilon}$ as the noise strength $\epsilon$ approaches $0$: for a given $p\in [1/2,1)$, if $f(z)$ is non-negative and is comparable to $z^p$ for sufficiently small $z$, then $V_{f,\epsilon}$ is comparable to $\epsilon^{-2\frac{1-p}{1+p}}$ for sufficiently small $\epsilon$.