Semilinear stochastic heat equation with piecewise constant coefficients: Power variations and parameter estimation
摘要
We study a generalized stochastic heat equation driven by space-time white noise and involving a spatially heterogeneous operator. The model describes heat conduction in a medium composed of two different materials. We focus on the temporal power variations of the solution and analyze two types of power variations: the quartic variation and a weighted quadratic variation. For both, we establish Central Limit Theorem and we derive convergence rates under the Wasserstein distance. These theoretical results are then applied to statistical inference for a parametric version of the model with unknown drift parameter. Based on power variations, we construct consistent estimators and study their asymptotic distributions. Our work combines probabilistic analysis with statistical methodology in the context of SPDEs with spatial heterogeneity.