Approximation of the Lévy-driven stochastic heat equation on the sphere

The stochastic heat equation on the sphere driven by additive Lévy random field is approximated by a spectral method in space and forward and backward Euler-Maruyama schemes in time, in analogy to the Wiener case. New regularity results are proven for the stochastic heat equation. The spectral approximation is based on a truncation of the series expansion with respect to the spherical harmonic functions. To do so, we restrict to square-integrable random field and optimal strong convergence rates for a given regularity of the initial condition and two different settings of regularity for the driving noise are derived for the Euler-Maruyama methods. Besides strong convergence, convergence of the expectation and second moment is shown. Weak rates for the spectral approximation are discussed. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical results.