On the short time asymptotic of the stochastic Allen–Cahn equation
A description of the short time behavior of solutions of the Allen–Cahn equation with a smoothened additive noise is presented. The key result is that in the sharp interface limit solutions move according to motion by mean curvature with an additional stochastic forcing. This extends a similar result of Funaki [ (1999) 407–438] in spatial dimension =2 to arbitrary dimensions.