N-term Wiener Chaos Approximation Rates for elliptic PDEs with lognormal Gaussian random inputs

We consider diffusion in a random medium modeled as diffusion equation with lognormal Gaussian diffusion coefficient. Sufficient conditions on the log permeability are provided in order for a weak solution to exist in certain Bochner-Lebesgue spaces with respect to a Gaussian measure. The stochastic problem is reformulated as an equivalent deterministic parametric problem on $\mathbb{R}^\mathbb{N}$. It is shown that the weak solution can be represented as Wiener-Itô Polynomial Chaos series of Hermite Polynomials of a countable number of i.i.d standard Gaussian random variables taking values in $\mathbb{R}^1$. We establish sufficient conditions on the random inputs for weighted sequence of norms of the Wiener-Itô decomposition coefficients of the random solution to be $p$-summable for some 0<p<1. For random inputs with additional spatial regularity, stronger norms of the weighted coefficient sequence in the random solutions' Wiener decomposition are shown to be $p$-summable for the same value of 0<p