The Burgers equation with a random force and a general model for directed polymers in random environments

Abstract

The study of the Burgers equation with a random force leads via a Hopf-Cole type transformation to a stochastic heat equation having a white noise with spatial parameters type potential. The latter can be studied by means of a general model of directed polymers in random environments with two point random potentials. These models exhibit a Gaussian behavior at large times and have certain stationary distributions which yield the corresponding results for the above stochastic heat and Burgers equations.