Analytically weak solutions to stochastic heat equations with spatially rough noise

In HHL+17 the authors showed existence and uniqueness of solutions to the nonlinear one-dimensional stochastic heat equation driven by a Gaussian noise that is white in time and rougher than white in space (in particular, its covariance is not a measure). Here we present a simple alternative to derive such results by considering the equations in the analytically weak sense, using either the variational approach or Krylov's Lᵖ-theory. Various improvements are obtained as corollaries.