Edwards-Wilkinson limit for a stochastic advection-diffusion PDE

Abstract

We consider a diffusion in a Gaussian random environment that is white in time and study the large-scale behavior of the quenched density with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We show that under diffusive rescaling, the fluctuations of the density converge to a Gaussian limit, described by an additive stochastic heat equation. In the case where the environment is divergence-free, our result can be interpreted as computing the scaling limit of the first-order correction to the quenched Central Limit Theorem.

28 pages, minor corrections, added references, submitted