Finite speed of propagation and waiting time phenomena for stochastic porous media equations with nonlinear conservative noise
Abstract
Starting from localized energy estimates, we prove finite speed of propagation for kinetic solutions to stochastic porous media equations with nonlinear conservative noise, the existence and uniqueness of which has recently been established. In particular, we propose a novel iteration technique which allows us to obtain a Stampacchia-type inequality involving one single integral quantity, despite the possibly different scaling behaviors of the porous media and the noise term. This allows us to apply stochastic filtering arguments developed for the case of linear source-type noise. Using related ideas, we identify flatness conditions on initial data which guarantee locally the occurrence of a waiting time phenomenon, i.e., the onset of forward propagation of the solution's support is locally delayed. The condition for the latter matches the one for the deterministic porous media equation up to a logarithmic correction in the case of critical nonlinearity in the noise, but it requires more and more flatness of the initial data as the nonlinearity tends towards linear conservative noise. This is in line with the expected behavior: In the case of linear conservative noise, instantaneous forward motion is possible due to the effects of stochastic transport, no matter how flat the initial profile is.
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BibTeX
@misc{grun2026finite,
title = {{Finite speed of propagation and waiting time phenomena for stochastic porous media equations with nonlinear conservative noise}},
author = {Günther Grün and Max Sauerbrey and Joshua Utley},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.30548},
eprint = {2608.30548},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30548},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Finite speed of propagation and waiting time phenomena for stochastic porous media equations with nonlinear conservative noise
AU - Günther Grün
AU - Max Sauerbrey
AU - Joshua Utley
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/31
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.30548
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30548
AB - Starting from localized energy estimates, we prove finite speed of propagation for kinetic solutions to stochastic porous media equations with nonlinear conservative noise, the existence and uniqueness of which has recently been established. In particular, we propose a novel iteration technique which allows us to obtain a Stampacchia-type inequality involving one single integral quantity, despite the possibly different scaling behaviors of the porous media and the noise term. This allows us to apply stochastic filtering arguments developed for the case of linear source-type noise. Using related ideas, we identify flatness conditions on initial data which guarantee locally the occurrence of a waiting time phenomenon, i.e., the onset of forward propagation of the solution's support is locally delayed. The condition for the latter matches the one for the deterministic porous media equation up to a logarithmic correction in the case of critical nonlinearity in the noise, but it requires more and more flatness of the initial data as the nonlinearity tends towards linear conservative noise. This is in line with the expected behavior: In the case of linear conservative noise, instantaneous forward motion is possible due to the effects of stochastic transport, no matter how flat the initial profile is.
ER -