Feynman-Kac formula for the heat equation driven by fractional white noise

Abstract

We establish a version of the Feynman–Kac formula for the multidimensional stochastic heat equation with a multiplicative fractional Brownian sheet. We use the techniques of Malliavin calculus to prove that the process defined by the Feynman–Kac formula is a weak solution of the stochastic heat equation. From the Feynman–Kac formula, we establish the smoothness of the density of the solution and the Hölder regularity in the space and time variables. We also derive a Feynman–Kac formula for the stochastic heat equation in the Skorokhod sense and we obtain the Wiener chaos expansion of the solution.