Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Ergodic theory of randomly forced space-time homogeneous Burgers equation in noncompact setting has been developed in a recent paper by Eric Cator , Kostya Khanin, and myself. The analysis is based on first passage percolation methods that allow to study coalescing one-sided action minimizers and construct the global solution via Busemann functions. i will talk about this theory and its extension to the case of space-continuous kick forcing. In this setting, the minimizers do not coalesce, so for the ergodic program to go through, one must use new soft results on their behavior to define generalized Busemann functions along appropriate subsequences.