Near-field scaling conjecture for the diffusion-off boundary

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Let v(x)v(x) be an antisymmetric velocity field with v(x)>0v(x)>0 for x>0x>0, and suppose

lim⁡x↓0log⁡v(x)log⁡x=β>0.\lim_{x\downarrow 0}\frac{\log v(x)}{\log x}=\beta>0.

Let b(x)b(x) denote the diffusion-off boundary. Near-field scaling conjecture. Then

lim⁡x↓0log⁡(−b(x))log⁡x=12(β−1+β2+2β+9).\lim_{x\downarrow 0}\frac{\log(-b(x))}{\log x}=\frac{1}{2}\left(\beta-1+\sqrt{\beta^2+2\beta+9}\right).

This predicts the near-origin power-law exponent of the boundary separating diffusion-on and diffusion-off regions. The paper derives the exponent heuristically by balancing two failure probabilities and compares it with numerical solutions, but does not establish the asserted limit analytically.

References

Primary source

Kalvis M. Jansons and Paul D. Metcalfe, “Optimally coupling the Kolmogorov diffusion, and related optimal control problems”, arXiv:math/0602365 (2006).

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