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Isotropic diffusions in random environment

Posted on:2016-06-09Degree:Ph.DType:Thesis
University:The University of ChicagoCandidate:Fehrman, Benjamin JosephFull Text:PDF
GTID:2470390017486797Subject:Theoretical Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
The purpose of this thesis is to describe the author's work [6,7], which builds upon results first obtained by Sznitman and Zeitouni [16]. We establish, for spacial dimensions at least three, the existence of a unique invariant measure for isotropic diffusions in random environment which are small perturbations of Brownian motion. The subsequent analysis is used to obtain a general homogenization result for the related parabolic equation with random, oscillating and locally measurable initial data. Furthermore, we obtain a Liouville property for such environments. It is shown that, on a subset of full probability, the constant functions are the only strictly sub-linear maps left invariant under the evolution of the diffusion. Our methods here are motivated by work in the discrete setting of Benjamini, Duminil-Copin, Kozma and Yadin [2].
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