On the local well-posedness of randomly forced reaction-diffusion equations with $L^2$ initial data and a superlinear reaction term

We consider a parabolic stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) on $[0,1]$ that is forced with multiplicative space-time white noise with a bounded and Lipschitz diffusion coefficient and a drift coefficient that is locally Lipschitz and satisfies an $L\log L$ growth condition. We prove that the SPDE is well posed when the initial data is in $L^2[0,1]$. This solves a strong form of an open problem.