In this work, we first derive the one-point large deviations principle (LDP) for both the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with small noise and its spatial finite difference method (FDM). Then, we focus on giving the convergence of the one-point large deviations rate function (LDRF) of the spatial FDM, which is about the asymptotical limit of a parametric variational problem. The main idea for proving the convergence of the LDRF of the spatial FDM is via the $\Gamma$-convergence of objective functions. This relies on the qualitative analysis of skeleton equations of the original equation and the numerical method. In order to overcome the difficulty that the drift coefficient is not one-sided Lipschitz continuous, we derive the equivalent characterization of the skeleton equation of the spatial FDM and the discrete interpolation inequality to obtain the uniform boundedness of the solution to the underlying skeleton equation. These play important roles in deriving the $\Gamma$-convergence of objective functions.
Diancong JIN
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Derui SHENG
. ASYMPTOTICS OF LARGE DEVIATIONS OF FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD FOR STOCHASTIC CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/s10473-025-0318-0
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