A full discretization of the rough fractional linear heat equation

Abstract

We study a full discretization scheme for the stochastic linear heat equation \begin{equation*}\begin{cases}\partial_t \langleΨ\rangle = Δ\langleΨ\rangle +\dot{B}\, , \quad t\in [0,1], \ x\in \mathbb{R},\\ \langleΨ\rangle_0=0\, ,\end{cases}\end{equation*} when $\dot{B}$ is a very \emph{rough space-time fractional noise}. The discretization procedure is divised into three steps: $(i)$ regularization of the noise through a mollifying-type approach; $(ii)$ discretization of the (smoothened) noise as a finite sum of Gaussian variables over rectangles in $[0,1]\times \mathbb{R}$; $(iii)$ discretization of the heat operator on the (non-compact) domain $[0,1]\times \mathbb{R}$, along the principles of Galerkin finite elements method. We establish the convergence of the resulting approximation to $⟨\Psi ⟩$, which, in such a specific rough framework, can only hold in a space of distributions. We also provide some partial simulations of the algorithm.