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On a Perturbation Method for Stochastic Parabolic PDE

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In this article, we address two issues related to the perturbation method introduced by Zhang and Lu (J Comput Phys 194:773–794, 2004), and applied to solving linear stochastic parabolic PDE. Those issues are the construction of the perturbation series, and its convergence.

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The authors would like to thank Victor Ginting for suggesting the considered problem.

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Correspondence to Peter L. Polyakov.

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The authors were partially supported by the NEUP program of the Department of Energy.

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Estep, D.J., Polyakov, P.L. On a Perturbation Method for Stochastic Parabolic PDE. Commun. Math. Stat. 3, 215–226 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40304-015-0056-z

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