Stochastic partial differential equations arising in self-organized criticality

04/27/2021
by   Ľubomír Baňas, et al.
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Scaling limits for the weakly driven Zhang and the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld (BTW) model for self-organized criticality are considered. It is shown that the weakly driven Zhang model converges to a stochastic PDE with singular-degenerate diffusion. In addition, the deterministic BTW model is proved to converge to a singular-degenerate PDE. Alternatively, the proof of convergence can be understood as a proof of convergence of a finite-difference discretization for singular-degenerate stochastic PDE. This extends recent work on finite difference approximation of (deterministic) quasilinear diffusion equations to discontinuous diffusion coefficients and stochastic PDE.

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