Superdiffusive central limit theorem for a class of driven diffusive systems at the critical dimension
- 1University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- 2University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 3Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Abstract
We study the large-scale behaviour of a class of driven diffusive systems modelled by a Stochastic Partial Differential Equation, the Stochastic Burgers Equation (SBE) with general nonlinearity, at the critical dimension and in infinite volume. Our main result shows that, under a logarithmically superdiffusive space-time scaling, it is given by the same explicit Gaussian Fixed point obtained in [G. Cannizzaro, Q. Moulard, & F. Toninelli, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00344, 2025] for the quadratic SBE, but with suitably renormalised coefficients, thereby rigorously justifying and partly correcting the classical Physics derivation of the SBE in [H. van Beijeren, R. Kutner, & H. Spohn, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1986] based on Spohn’s theory of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics. Besides, ours is the first universality-type result for out-of-equilibrium systems and the first extension of [M. Hairer, J. Quastel, Forum of Mathematics, Pi, Vol. 6, 2018, e3], to the critical dimension and beyond weak coupling. The major challenge in our work is the mild growth condition on the nonlinearity which renders even the well-posedness of the microscopic equation non-trivial. Additional key novelties include the derivation of fine estimates on the non-quadratic part of the generator as well as a new approximation for the resolvent associated to the solution of the quadratic SBE.
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BibTeX
@article{cannizzaro2026superdiffusive,
title = {{Superdiffusive central limit theorem for a class of driven diffusive systems at the critical dimension}},
author = {Giuseppe Cannizzaro and Tom Klose and Quentin Moulard},
journal = {Probability Theory and Related Fields},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.1007/s00440-026-01515-8},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-026-01515-8},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Superdiffusive central limit theorem for a class of driven diffusive systems at the critical dimension
AU - Giuseppe Cannizzaro
AU - Tom Klose
AU - Quentin Moulard
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/15
JO - Probability Theory and Related Fields
DO - 10.1007/s00440-026-01515-8
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-026-01515-8
AB - We study the large-scale behaviour of a class of driven diffusive systems modelled by a Stochastic Partial Differential Equation, the Stochastic Burgers Equation (SBE) with general nonlinearity, at the critical dimension and in infinite volume. Our main result shows that, under a logarithmically superdiffusive space-time scaling, it is given by the same explicit Gaussian Fixed point obtained in [G. Cannizzaro, Q. Moulard, & F. Toninelli, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00344, 2025] for the quadratic SBE, but with suitably renormalised coefficients, thereby rigorously justifying and partly correcting the classical Physics derivation of the SBE in [H. van Beijeren, R. Kutner, & H. Spohn, Phys. Rev. Lett., 1986] based on Spohn’s theory of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics. Besides, ours is the first universality-type result for out-of-equilibrium systems and the first extension of [M. Hairer, J. Quastel, Forum of Mathematics, Pi, Vol. 6, 2018, e3], to the critical dimension and beyond weak coupling. The major challenge in our work is the mild growth condition on the nonlinearity which renders even the well-posedness of the microscopic equation non-trivial. Additional key novelties include the derivation of fine estimates on the non-quadratic part of the generator as well as a new approximation for the resolvent associated to the solution of the quadratic SBE.
SN - 0178-8051
SN - 1432-2064
ER -