Well-posedness and convergence of a numerical scheme for the corrected Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equation using the Hellinger distance

Abstract: In this paper we construct a unique global in time weak nonnegative solution to the corrected Derrida-Lebowitz-Speer-Spohn equation, which statistically describes the interface fluctuations between two phases in a certain spin system. The construction of the weak solution is based on the dissipation of a Lyapunov functional which equals to the square of the Hellinger distance between the solution and the constant steady state. Furthermore, it is shown that the weak solution converges at an exponential rate to the constant steady state in the Hellinger distance and thus also in the $L^1$-norm. Numerical scheme which preserves the variational structure of the equation is devised and its convergence in terms of a discrete Hellinger distance is demonstrated.