We study strictly parabolic stochastic partial differential equations on $\R^d$, $d\ge 1$, driven by a Gaussian noise white in time and coloured in space. Assuming that the coefficients of the differential operator are random, we give sufficient conditions on the correlation of the noise ensuring Hölder continuity for the trajectories of the solution of the equation. For self-adjoint operators with deterministic coefficients, the mild and weak formulation of the equation are related, deriving path properties of the solution to a parabolic Cauchy problem in evolution form.
We use Yosida approximation to find an Itô formula for mild solutions $\left\{X^x(t), t\geq 0\right\}$ of SPDEs with Gaussian and non-Gaussian coloured noise, the non Gaussian noise being defined through compensated Poisson random measure associated to a Lévy process. The functions to which we apply such Itô formula are in $C^{1,2}([0,T]\times H)$, as in the case considered for SDEs in [9]. Using this Itô formula we prove exponential stability and exponential ultimate boundedness properties in mean square sense for mild solutions. We also compare such Itô formula to an Itô formula for mild sol…
In this paper, we establish an existence and uniqueness result for system of quasilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs for short) with reflection in a convex domain in R^k by analytical approach. The method is based on the approximation of the penalized systems of SPDEs.
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 $p$.
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, …
Covariant stochastic partial differential equations are studied in any dimension. A special class of such equations is selected and it is proven that the solutions can be analytically continued to Minkowski space-time yielding tempered Wightman distributions which are covariant, obey the locality axiom and a weak form of the spectral axiom. Key words: stochastic partial differential equations, white noise, covariant Markov generalized random fields, Euclidean QFT, Schwinger functions, Wightman distributions
We investigate the long-time asymptotics of the fluctuation SPDE in the Kuramoto synchronization model. We establish the linear behavior for large time and weak disorder of the quenched limit fluctuations of the empirical measure of the particles around its McKean-Vlasov limit. This is carried out through a spectral analysis of the underlying unbounded evolution operator, using arguments of perturbation of self-adjoint operators and analytic semigroups. We state in particular a Jordan decomposition of the evolution operator which is the key point in order to show that the fluctuations of the d…
Higher order schemes for stochastic partial differential equations that do not possess commutative noise require the simulation of iterated stochastic integrals. In this work, we propose a derivative-free Milstein type scheme to approximate the mild solution of stochastic partial differential equations that need not to fulfill a commutativity condition for the noise term and which can flexibly be combined with some approximation method for the involved iterated integrals. Recently, the authors introduced two algorithms to simulate such iterated stochastic integrals; these clear the way for the…
We prove optimal regularity estimates in Sobolev spaces in time and space for solutions to stochastic porous medium equations. The noise term considered here is multiplicative, white in time and coloured in space. The coefficients are assumed to be Hölder continuous and the cases of smooth coefficients of at most linear growth as well as $\sqrt{u}$ are covered by our assumptions. The regularity obtained is consistent with the optimal regularity derived for the deterministic porous medium equation in [Gess 2020] and [Gess, Sauer, Tadmor 2020] and the presence of the temporal white noise. The pr…
We prove a new uniqueness result for solutions to Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equations for probability measures on infinite-dimensional spaces. We consider infinite-dimensional drifts that admit certain finite-dimensional approximations. In contrast to most of the previous work on FPK-equations in infinite dimensions, we include cases with non-constant coefficients in the second order part and also include degenerate cases where these coefficients can even be zero. Also a new existence result is proved. Some applications to Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations associated with SPDEs are prese…
In this article, we show how the theory of rough paths can be used to provide a notion of solution to a class of nonlinear stochastic PDEs of Burgers type that exhibit too high spatial roughness for classical analytical methods to apply. In fact, the class of SPDEs that we consider is genuinely ill-posed in the sense that different approximations to the nonlinearity may converge to different limits. Using rough paths theory, a pathwise notion of solution to these SPDEs is formulated, and we show that this yields a well-posed problem, which is stable under a large class of perturbations, includ…
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…
This work introduces a general framework for establishing the long time accuracy for approximations of Markovian dynamical systems on separable Banach spaces. Our results illuminate the role that a certain uniformity in Wasserstein contraction rates for the approximating dynamics bears on long time accuracy estimates. In particular, our approach yields weak consistency bounds on $\mathbb{R}^+$ while providing a means to sidestepping a commonly occurring situation where certain higher order moment bounds are unavailable for the approximating dynamics. Additionally, to facilitate the analytical …
We generalize Lyons' rough paths theory in order to give a pathwise meaning to some nonlinear infinite-dimensional evolution equation associated to an analytic semigroup and driven by an irregular noise. As an illustration, we discuss a class of linear and nonlinear 1d SPDEs driven by a space--time Gaussian noise with singular space covariance and Brownian time dependence.
We investigate the stability of traveling-pulse solutions to the stochastic FitzHughNagumo equations with additive noise. Special attention is given to the effect of small noise on the classical deterministically stable fast traveling pulse. Our method is based on adapting the velocity of the traveling wave by solving a scalar stochastic ordinary differential equation (SODE) and tracking perturbations to the wave meeting a system of a scalar stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) coupled to a scalar ordinary differential equation (ODE). This approach has been recently employed by Krüg…
We define linear stochastic heat equations (SHE) on p.c.f.s.s. sets equipped with regular harmonic structures. We show that if the spectral dimension of the set is less than two, then function-valued "random-field" solutions to these SPDEs exist and are jointly Hölder continuous in space and time. We calculate the respective Hölder exponents, which extend the well-known results on the Hölder exponents of the solution to SHE on the unit interval. This shows that the "curse of dimensionality" of the SHE on $\mathbb{R}^n$ depends not on the geometric dimension of the ambient space but on the anal…
We propose an analytically tractable class of models for the dynamics of a limit order book, described through a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with multiplicative noise for the order book centered at the mid-price, along with stochastic dynamics for the mid-price which is consistent with the order flow dynamics. We provide conditions under which the model admits a finite dimensional realization driven by a (low-dimensional) Markov process, leading to efficient estimation and computation methods. We study two examples of parsimonious models in this class: a two-factor model an…
There have been significant recent advances in our understanding of the potential use and limitations of early-warning signs for predicting drastic changes, so called critical transitions or tipping points, in dynamical systems. A focus of mathematical modeling and analysis has been on stochastic ordinary differential equations, where generic statistical early-warning signs can be identified near bifurcation-induced tipping points. In this paper, we outline some basic steps to extend this theory to stochastic partial differential equations with a focus on analytically characterizing basic scal…