## Electronic Journal of Probability

### The Non-Linear Stochastic Wave Equation in High Dimensions

#### Abstract

We propose an extension of Walsh's classical martingale measure stochastic integral that makes it possible to integrate a general class of Schwartz distributions, which contains the fundamental solution of the wave equation, even in dimensions greater than 3. This leads to a square-integrable random-field solution to the non-linear stochastic wave equation in any dimension, in the case of a driving noise that is white in time and correlated in space. In the particular case of an affine multiplicative noise, we obtain estimates on $p$-th moments of the solution ($p\geq 1$), and we show that the solution is Hölder continuous. The Hölder exponent that we obtain is optimal.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab. Volume 13 (2008), paper no. 22, 629-670.

Dates
Accepted: 12 April 2008
First available in Project Euclid: 1 June 2016

Permanent link to this document
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1464819095

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v13-500

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2399293

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#### Citation

Conus, Daniel; Dalang, Robert. The Non-Linear Stochastic Wave Equation in High Dimensions. Electron. J. Probab. 13 (2008), paper no. 22, 629--670. doi:10.1214/EJP.v13-500. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1464819095.

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