In this paper, we are concerned with possibly degenerate stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). An $L^2$-theory is introduced, from which we derive the Hörmander theorem with an analytical approach. With the method of De Giorgi iteration, we obtain the maximum principle which states the $L^p$ ($p>0$) estimates for the time-space uniform norm of weak solutions.
We study the Cauchy problem for a scalar semilinear degenerate parabolic partial differential equation with stochastic forcing. In particular, we are concerned with the well-posedness in any space dimension. We adapt the notion of kinetic solution which is well suited for degenerate parabolic problems and supplies a good technical framework to prove the comparison principle. The proof of existence is based on the vanishing viscosity method: the solution is obtained by a compactness argument as the limit of solutions of nondegenerate approximations.
We study quasilinear degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic stochastic partial differential equations with general multiplicative noise within the framework of kinetic solutions. Our results are twofold: First, we establish new regularity results based on averaging techniques. Second, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions in a full $L^1$ setting requiring no growth assumptions on the nonlinearities. In addition, we prove a comparison result and an $L^1$-contraction property for the solutions.
Backward stochastic partial differential equations of parabolic type in bounded domains are studied in the setting where the coercivity condition is not necessary satisfied and the equation can be degenerate. Some generalized solutions based on the representation theorem are suggested. In addition to problems with a standard Cauchy condition at the terminal time, problems with special non-local boundary conditions are considered. These non-local conditions connect the terminal value of the solution with a functional over the entire past solution. Uniqueness, solvability and regularity results …
The regularity and characterization of solutions to degenerate, quasilinear SPDE is studied. Our results are two-fold: First, we prove regularity results for solutions to certain degenerate, quasilinear SPDE driven by Lipschitz continuous noise. In particular, this provides a characterization of solutions to such SPDE in terms of (generalized) strong solutions. Second, for the one-dimensional stochastic mean curvature flow with normal noise we adapt the notion of stochastic variational inequalities to provide a characterization of solutions previously obtained in a limiting sense only. This so…
In this article, using DiPerna-Lions theory \cite{Di-Li}, we investigate linear second order stochastic partial differential equations with unbounded and degenerate non-smooth coefficients, and obtain several conditions for existence and uniqueness. Moreover, we also prove the $L^1$-integrability and a general maximal principle for generalized solutions of SPDEs. As applications, we study nonlinear filtering problem and also obtain the existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions for a degenerate nonlinear SPDE.
Systems of parabolic, possibly degenerate parabolic SPDEs are considered. Existence and uniqueness are established in Sobolev spaces. Similar results are obtained for a class of equations generalizing the deterministic first order symmetric hyperbolic systems.
We prove the existence of random attractors for a large class of degenerate stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) perturbed by joint additive Wiener noise and real, linear multiplicative Brownian noise, assuming only the standard assumptions of the variational approach to SPDE with compact embeddings in the associated Gelfand triple. This allows spatially much rougher noise than in known results. The approach is based on a construction of strictly stationary solutions to related strongly monotone SPDE. Applications include stochastic generalized porous media equations, stochastic ge…
We give meaning to linear and semi-linear (possibly degenerate) parabolic partial differential equations with (affine) linear rough path noise and establish stability in a rough path metric. In the case of enhanced Brownian motion (Brownian motion with its Lévy area) as rough path noise the solution coincides with the standard variational solution of the SPDE.
Quantitative estimates for the top Lyapunov exponents for systems of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations are proven. The treatment includes reaction potentials with degenerate minima. The proof relies on an asymptotic expansion of the invariant measure, with careful control on the resulting error terms. As a consequence of these estimates, synchronisation by noise is deduced for systems of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations for the first time.
We consider a class of generalised stochastic porous media equations with multiplicative Lipschitz continuous noise. These equations can be related to physical models exhibiting self-organised criticality. We show that these SPDEs have unique SVI solutions which depend continuously on the initial value. In order to formulate this notion of solution and to prove uniqueness in the case of a slowly growing nonlinearity, the arising energy functional is analysed in detail.
This paper considers second-order stochastic partial differential equations with additive noise given in a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^n$. We suppose that the coefficients of the noise are $L^p$-functions with sufficiently large $p$. We prove that the solutions are Hölder-continuous functions almost surely (a.s.) and that the respective Hölder norms have finite momenta of any order.
We develop a solution theory in Hölder spaces for a quasilinear stochastic PDE driven by an additive noise. The key ingredients are two deterministic PDE Lemmas which establish a priori Hölder bounds for an equation with irregular right hand side written in divergence form. We apply these deterministic bounds to the case of a noise term which is white in time and trace class in space to obtain stretched exponential bounds for the Hölder semi-norms of the solution for the stochastic equation.
An Ito-Skorokhod bi-linear equation driven by infinitely many independent colored noises is considered in a normal triple of Hilbert spaces. The special feature of the equation is the appearance of the Wick product in the definition of the Ito-Skorokhod integral, requiring innovative approaches to computing the solution. A chaos expansion of the solution is derived and several truncations of this expansion are studied. A recursive approximation of the solution is suggested and the corresponding approximation error bound is computed.
Unique existence of analytically strong solutions to stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE) with drift given by the subdifferential of a quasi-convex function and with general multiplicative noise is proven. The proof applies a genuinely new method of weighted Galerkin approximations based on the "distance" defined by the quasi-convex function. Spatial regularization of the initial condition analogous to the deterministic case is obtained. The results yield a unified framework which is applied to stochastic generalized porous media equations, stochastic generalized reaction diffusion…
We consider the question of exponential decay to equilibrium of solutions of an abstract class of degenerate evolution equations on a Hilbert space modeling the steady Boltzmann and other kinetic equations. Specifically, we provide conditions suitable for construction of a stable manifold in a particular "reverse L infinity norm" and examine when these do and do not hold.
In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear degenerate parabolic stochastic partial differential equation driven by a cylindrical Wiener process. In particular, we adapt the notion of kinetic formulation and kinetic solution and develop a well-posedness theory that includes also an $L^1$-contraction property. In comparison to the previous works of the authors concerning stochastic hyperbolic conservation laws [J. Funct. Anal. 259 (2010) 1014-1042] and semilinear degenerate parabolic SPDEs [Stochastic Process. Appl. 123 (2013) 4294-4336], the present result contains two new ing…
In this paper, we study both elliptic and parabolic equations in non-divergence form with singular degenerate coefficients. Weighted and mixed-norm $L_p$-estimates and solvability are established under some suitable partially weighted BMO regularity conditions on the coefficients. When the coefficients are constants, the operators are reduced to extensional operators which arise in the study of fractional heat equations and fractional Laplace equations. Our results are new even in this setting and in the unmixed case. For the proof, we establish both interior and boundary Lipschitz estimates f…
We consider regularity properties of stochastic kinetic equations with multiplicative noise and drift term which belongs to a space of mixed regularity ($L^p$-regularity in the velocity-variable and Sobolev regularity in the space-variable). We prove that, in contrast with the deterministic case, the SPDE admits a unique weakly differentiable solution which preserves a certain degree of Sobolev regularity of the initial condition without developing discontinuities. To prove the result we also study the related degenerate Kolmogorov equation in Bessel-Sobolev spaces and construct a suitable sto…
In a previous paper we considered a class of infinitely degenerate quasilinear equations and derived a priori bounds for high order derivatives of solutions in terms of the Lipschitz norm. We now show that it is possible to obtain bounds just in terms of the supremum norm for a further subclass of such equations, and we apply the resulting estimates to prove that continuous weak solutions are necessarily smooth. We also obtain existence, uniqueness and interior regularity of solutions for the Dirichlet problem with continuous boundary data.
In this paper, we study a free boundary problem for compressible spherically symmetric Navier-Stokes equations with a gravitational force and degenerate viscosity coefficients. Under certain assumptions that imposed on the initial data, we obtain the global existence and uniqueness of the weak solution and give some uniform bounds (with respect to time) of the solution. Moreover, we obtain some stabilization rate estimates in $L^\infty$-norm and weighted $H^1$-norm of the solution. The results show that such system is stable under the small perturbations, and could be applied to the astrophysi…
In the paper, we study the Prandtl system with initial data admitting non-degenerate critical points. For any index $σ\in[3/2, 2],$ we obtain the local in time well-posedness in the space of Gevrey class $G^σ$ in the tangential variable and Sobolev class in the normal variable so that the monotonicity condition on the tangential velocity is not needed to overcome the loss of tangential derivative. This answers the open question raised in the paper of D. Gérard-Varet and N. Masmoudi [{\it Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér}. (4) 48 (2015), no. 6, 1273-1325], in which the case $σ=7/4$ is solved.
Bounded weak solutions are constructed for a degenerate parabolic system with a full diffusion matrix, which is a generalized version of the thin film Muskat system. Boundedness is achieved with the help of a sequence $(\mathcal{E}_n)_{n\ge 2}$ of Liapunov functionals such that $\mathcal{E}_n$ is equivalent to the $L_n$-norm for each $n \ge 2$ and $\mathcal{E}_n^{1/n}$ controls the $L_\infty$-norm in the limit $n\to\infty$. Weak solutions are built by a compactness approach, special care being needed in the construction of the approximation in order to preserve the availability of the above-me…
A degenerate fourth-order parabolic equation modeling condensation phenomena related to Bose-Einstein particles is analyzed. The model is a Fokker-Planck-type approximation of the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation, only keeping the leading order term. It maintains some of the main features of the kinetic model, namely mass and energy conservation and condensation at zero energy. The existence of a local-in-time nonnegative continuous weak solution is proven. If the solution is not global, it blows up with respect to the $L^\infty$ norm in finite time. The proof is based on approximation arguments, i…
This paper is focused on the local interior $W^{1,\infty}$-regularity for weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations of the form $\text{div}[\mathbf{a}(x,u, \nabla u)] +b(x, u, \nabla u) =0$, which include those of $p$-Laplacian type. We derive an explicit estimate of the local $L^\infty$-norm for the solution's gradient in terms of its local $L^p$-norm. Specifically, we prove \begin{equation*} \|\nabla u\|_{L^\infty(B_{\frac{R}{2}}(x_0))}^p \leq \frac{C}{|B_R(x_0)|}\int_{B_R(x_0)}|\nabla u(x)|^p dx. \end{equation*} This estimate paves the way for our forthcoming work in establishing $W^{…
We are interested in (uniformly) parabolic PDEs with a nonlinear dependance of the leading-order coefficients, driven by a rough right hand side. For simplicity, we consider a space-time periodic setting with a single spatial variable: \begin{equation*} \partial_2u -P( a(u)\partial_1^2u - σ(u)f ) =0 \end{equation*} where $P$ is the projection on mean-zero functions, and $f$ is a distribution and only controlled in the low regularity norm of $ C^{α-2}$ for $α> \frac{2}{3}$ on the parabolic Hölder scale. The example we have in mind is a random forcing $f$ and our assumptions allow, for example, …
We study a stochastic boundary value problem on $(0,1)^d$ of elliptic type in dimension $d\ge 4$, driven by a coloured noise. An approximation scheme based on a suitable discretization of the Laplacian on a lattice of $(0,1)^d$ is presented; we also give the rate of convergence to the original SPDE in $L^p(Ω;L^{2}(D))$--norm, for some values of $p$.
