Stochastic heat flow: axiomatic formulation and log log fluctuations
Speaker:
Li-Cheng Tsai, University of Utah
Date and Time:
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Fields, 210
Abstract:
The Stochastic Heat Flow (SHF) emerges as the scaling limit of directed polymers in random environments and the noise-mollified stochastic heat equation, specifically at the critical dimension of two and near the critical temperature. I will present an axiomatic formulation of the SHF as well as its construction based on its moments, and discuss how this formulation can be applied to solve a range of problems, particularly the asymptotic pointwise fluctuations of the averaged SHF.

