We develop a new method to uniquely solve a large class of heat equations, so-called Kolmogorov equations in infinitely many variables. The equations are analyzed in spaces of sequentially weakly continuous functions weighted by proper (Lyapunov type) functions. This way for the first time the solutions are constructed everywhere without exceptional sets for equations with possibly nonlocally Lipschitz drifts. Apart from general analytic interest, the main motivation is to apply this to uniquely solve martingale problems in the sense of Stroock--Varadhan given by stochastic partial differential equations from hydrodynamics, such as the stochastic Navier--Stokes equations. In this paper this is done in the case of the stochastic generalized Burgers equation. Uniqueness is shown in the sense of Markov flows.
In this book we establish under suitable assumptions the uniqueness and existence of viscosity solutions of Kolmogorov backward equations for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). In addition, we show that this solution is the semigroup of the corresponding SPDE. This generalizes the Feynman-Kac formula to SPDEs and establishes a link between solutions of Kolmogorov equations and solutions of the corresponding SPDEs. In contrast to the literature we only assume that the nonlinear part of the drift is Lipschitz continuous on bounded sets (and not globally Lipschitz continuous) and …
We are concerned with a viscous Burgers equation forced by a perturbation of white noise type. We study the corresponding transition semigroup in a space of continuous functions weighted by a proper potential, and we show that the infinitesimal generator is the closure (with respect to a suitable topology) of the Kolmogorov operator associated to the stochastic equation. In the last part of the paper we use this result to solve the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation.
In this project we investigate the stochastic Burgers' equation with multiplicative space-time white noise on an unbounded spatial domain. We give a random field solution to this equation by defining a process via a kind of Feynman-Kac representation which solves a stochastic partial differential equation such that its Hopf-Cole transformation solves Burgers' equation. Finally, we obtain Hölder regularity and moment estimates for the solution to Burgers' equation.
In this paper, we develop low regularity theory for 3D Burgers equation perturbed by a linear multiplicative stochastic force. This method is new and essentially different from the deterministic partial differential equations(PDEs). Our results and method can be widely applied to other stochastic hydrodynamic equations and the deterministic PDEs. As a further study, we establish a random version of maximum principle for random 3D Burgers equations, which will be an important tool for the study of 3D stochastic Burgers equations. As we know establishing moment estimates for highly nonlinear sto…
In this paper we show how to derive regularity for the solution of Kolmogorov PIDEs driven by a vector field which is a second order integro differential operator of affine type. These results are valuable in applications, in particular for the analysis of the convergence rate of weak approximation schemes for affine processes.
In this article we investigate the spatial Sobolev regularity of mild solutions to stochastic Burgers equations with additive trace class noise. Our findings are based on a combination of suitable bootstrap-type arguments and a detailed analysis of the nonlinearity in the equation.
We develop a martingale approach for a class of singular stochastic PDEs of Burgers type (including fractional and multi-component Burgers equations) by constructing a domain for their infinitesimal generators. It was known that the domain must have trivial intersection with the usual cylinder test functions, and to overcome this difficulty we import some ideas from paracontrolled distributions to an infinite dimensional setting in order to construct a domain of controlled functions. Using the new domain, we are able to prove existence and uniqueness for the Kolmogorov backward equation and th…
In this paper, we study the strong and weak convergence rates for multi-scale one-dimensional stochastic Burgers equation. Based on the techniques of Galerkin approximation, Kolmogorov equation and Poisson equation, we obtain the slow component strongly and weakly converges to the solution of the corresponding averaged equation with optimal orders 1/2 and 1 respectively. The highly nonlinear term in system brings us huge difficulties, we develop new technique to overcome these difficulties. To the best of our knowledge, this work seems to be the first result in which the optimal convergence or…
We present the $L_p$-solvability for stochastic time fractional Burgers' equations driven by multiplicative space-time white noise: $$ \partial_t^αu = a^{ij}u_{x^ix^j} + b^{i}u_{x^i} + cu + \bar b^i u u_{x^i} + \partial_t^β\int_0^t σ(u)dW_t,\,t>0;\,\,u(0,\cdot) = u_0, $$ where $α\in(0,1)$, $β< 3α/4+1/2$, and $d< 4 - 2(2β-1)_+/α$. The operators $\partial_t^α$ and $\partial_t^β$ are the Caputo fractional derivatives of order $α$ and $β$, respectively. The process $W_t$ is an $L_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$-valued cylindrical Wiener process, and the coefficients $a^{ij}, b^i, c$ and $σ(u)$ are random. In add…
We prove smoothing properties and optimal Schauder type estimates for a class of nonautonomous evolution equations driven by time dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators in a separable Hilbert space. They arise as Kolmogorov equations of linear nonautonomous stochastic differential equations with Gaussian noise.
We study value functions which are viscosity solutions of certain Kolmogorov equations. Using PDE techniques we prove that they are $C^{1,α}$ regular on special finite dimensional subspaces. The problem has origins in pricing and hedging of derivatives of risky assets in mathematical finance.
We introduce the uniqueness, existence, $L_p$-regularity, and maximal Hölder regularity of the solution to semilinear stochastic partial differential equation driven by a multiplicative space-time white noise: $$ u_t = au_{xx} + bu_{x} + cu + \bar b|u|^λu_{x} + σ(u)\dot W,\quad (t,x)\in(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}; \quad u(0,\cdot) = u_0, $$ where $λ> 0$. The function $σ(u)$ is either bounded Lipschitz or super-linear in $u$. The noise $\dot W$ is a space-time white noise. The coefficients $a,b,c$ depend on $(ω,t,x)$, and $\bar b$ depends on $(ω,t)$. The coefficients $a,b,c,\bar{b}$ are uniforml…
In this article we establish regularity properties for solutions of infinite dimensional Kolmogorov equations. We prove that if the nonlinear drift coefficients, the nonlinear diffusion coefficients, and the initial conditions of the considered Kolmogorov equations are $n$-times continuously Fréchet differentiable, then so are the generalized solutions at every positive time. In addition, a key contribution of this work is to prove suitable enhanced regularity properties for the derivatives of the generalized solutions of the Kolmogorov equations in the sense that the dominating linear operato…
We show uniqueness in law for the critical SPDE $$ dX_t = AX_t dt + (-A)^{1/2}F(X(t))dt + dW_t,\;\; X_0 =x \in H, $$ where $A$ $ : dom(A) \subset H \to H$ is a negative definite self-adjoint operator on a separable Hilbert space $H$ having $A^{-1}$ of trace class and $W$ is a cylindrical Wiener process on $H$. Here $F: H \to H $ can be continuous with at most linear growth (some functions $F$ which grow more than linearly can also be considered). This leads to new uniqueness results for generalized stochastic Burgers' equations and for three-dimensional stochastic Cahn-Hilliard type equations …
We prove the existence and the Besov regularity of the density of the solution to a general parabolic SPDE which includes the stochastic Burgers equation on an unbounded domain. We use an elementary approach based on the fractional integration by parts.
We show uniqueness in law for the critical SPDE \begin{eqnarray} \label{qq1} dX_t = AX_t dt + (-A)^{1/2}F(X(t))dt + dW_t,\;\; X_0 =x \in H, \end{eqnarray} where $A$ $ : \text{dom}(A) \subset H \to H$ is a negative definite self-adjoint operator on a separable Hilbert space $H$ having $A^{-1}$ of trace class and $W$ is a cylindrical Wiener process on $H$. Here $F: H \to H $ can be locally Hölder continuous with at most linear growth (some functions $F$ which grow more than linearly can also be considered). This leads to new uniqueness results for generalized stochastic Burgers equations and for…
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University（兰州大学数学与统计学院）；Gansu Provincial Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Mathematics and Statistics（甘肃省数学与统计基础学科研究中心）
We provide new regularity results for the solutions of the Kolmogorov equation associated to a SPDE with nonlinear diffusion coefficients and a Burgers type nonlinearity. This generalizes previous results in the simpler cases of additive or affine noise. The basic tool is a discrete version of a two sided stochastic integral which allows a new formulation for the derivatives of these solutions. We show that this can be used to generalize the weak order analysis performed in [16]. The tools we develop are very general and can be used to study many other examples of applications.
The Kolmogorov equation associated to a stochastic 2D Euler equations with transport type noise and random initial conditions is studied by a direct approach, based on Fourier analysis, Galerkin approximation and Wiener chaos methods. The method allows us to generalize previous results and to understand the role of the regularity of the noise, in relation to a limiting value of roughness.
This work is devoted to investigating stochastic turbulence for the fluid flow in one-dimensional viscous Burgers equation perturbed by Lévy space-time white noise with the periodic boundary condition. We rigorously discuss the regularity of solutions and their statistical quantities in this stochastic dynamical system. The quantities are such as the moment estimate, the structure function and the energy spectrum of the turbulent velocity field. Furthermore, we provide qualitative and quantitative properties of the stochastic Burgers equation when the kinematic viscosity ν tends towards zero. …
The celebrated Hörmander condition is a sufficient (and nearly necessary) condition for a second-order linear Kolmogorov partial differential equation (PDE) with smooth coefficients to be hypoelliptic. As a consequence, the solutions of Kolmogorov PDEs are smooth at all positive times if the coefficients of the PDE are smooth and satisfy Hörmander's condition even if the initial function is only continuous but not differentiable. First-order linear Kolmogorov PDEs with smooth coefficients do not have this smoothing effect but at least preserve regularity in the sense that solutions are smooth …
We prove that a probability solution of the stationary Kolmogorov equation generated by a first order perturbation $v$ of the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck operator $L$ possesses a highly integrable density with respect to the Gaussian measure satisfying the non-perturbed equation provided that $v$ is sufficiently integrable. More generally, a similar estimate is proved for solutions to inequalities connected with Markov semigroup generators under the curvature condition $CD(θ,\infty)$. For perturbations from $L^p$ an analog of the Log-Sobolev inequality is obtained. It is also proved in the Gaussian ca…
In $\mathbb R^d$, $d \geq 3$, consider the divergence and the non-divergence form operators \begin{equation} \tag{$i$} -Δ- \nabla \cdot (a-I) \cdot \nabla + b \cdot \nabla, \end{equation} \begin{equation} \tag{$ii$} - Δ- (a-I) \cdot \nabla^2 + b \cdot \nabla, \end{equation} where the second order perturbations are given by the matrix $$a-I=c|x|^{-2}x \otimes x, \quad c>-1.$$ The vector field $b:\mathbb R^d \rightarrow \mathbb R^d$ is form-bounded with the form-bound $δ>0$ (this includes a sub-critical class $[L^d + L^\infty]^d$, as well as vector fields having critical-order singularities). We…
In $\mathbb R^d$, $d \geq 3$, consider the divergence and the non-divergence form operators \begin{equation} \tag{$i$} - \nabla \cdot a \cdot \nabla + b \cdot \nabla, \end{equation} \begin{equation} \tag{$ii$} - a \cdot \nabla^2 + b \cdot \nabla, \end{equation} where $a=I+c \mathsf{f} \otimes \mathsf{f}$, the vector fields $\nabla_i \mathsf{f}$ ($i=1,2,\dots,d$) and $b$ are form-bounded (this includes the sub-critical class $[L^d + L^\infty]^d$ as well as vector fields having critical-order singularities). We characterize quantitative dependence on $c$ and the values of the form-bounds of the …
Consider the following Kolmogorov type hypoelliptic operator $$ \mathscr L_t:=\mbox{$\sum_{j=2}^n$}x_j\cdot\nabla_{x_{j-1}}+{\rm Tr} (a_t \cdot\nabla^2_{x_n}), $$ where $n\geq 2$, $x=(x_1,\cdots,x_n)\in(\mathbb R^d)^n =\mathbb R^{nd}$ and $a_t$ is a time-dependent constant symmetric $d\times d$-matrix that is uniformly elliptic and bounded.. Let $\{\mathcal T_{s,t}; t\geq s\}$ be the time-dependent semigroup associated with $\mathscr L_t$; that is, $\partial_s {\mathcal T}_{s, t} f = - {\mathscr L}_s {\mathcal T}_{s, t}f$. For any $p\in(1,\infty)$, we show that there is a constant $C=C(p,n,d)>…
We deal with a class of semilinear parabolic PDEs on the space of continuous functions that arise, for example, as Kolmogorov equations associated to the infinite-dimensional lifting of path-dependent SDEs. We investigate existence of smooth solutions through their representation via forward-backward stochastic systems, for which we provide the necessary regularity theory. Because of the lack of smoothing properties of the parabolic operators at hand, solutions in general will only share the same regularity as the coefficients of the equation. To conclude we exhibit an application to Hamilton-…
Strong and weak approximation errors of a spatial finite element method are analyzed for stochastic partial differential equations(SPDEs) with one-sided Lipschitz coefficients, including the stochastic Allen--Cahn equation, driven by additive noise. In order to give the strong convergence rate of the finite element method, we present an appropriate decomposition and some a priori estimates of the discrete stochastic convolution. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no essentially sharp weak convergence rate of spatial approximation for parabolic SPDEs with non-globally Lipschitz coeffi…
The paper is concerned with spatial and time regularity of solutions to linear stochastic evolution equation perturbed by Lévy white noise "obtained by subordination of a Gaussian white noise". Sufficient conditions for spatial continuity are derived. It is also shown that solutions do not have in general \cadlag modifications. General results are applied to equations with fractional Laplacian. Applications to Burgers stochastic equations are considered as well.
We introduce what we call the second-order Boltzmann-Gibbs principle, which allows to replace local functionals of a conservative, one-dimensional stochastic process by a possibly nonlinear function of the conserved quantity. This replacement opens the way to obtain nonlinear stochastic evolutions as the limit of the fluctuations of the conserved quantity around stationary states. As an application of this second-order Boltzmann-Gibbs principle, we introduce the notion of energy solutions of the KPZ and stochastic Burgers equations. Under minimal assumptions, we prove that the density fluctuat…
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 this paper we study second order stochastic differential equations with measurable and density-distribution dependent coefficients. Through establishing a maximum principle for kinetic Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations with distribution-valued inhomogeneous term, we show the existence of weak solutions under mild assumptions. Moreover, by using the Hölder regularity estimate obtained recently in \cite{GIMV19}, we also show the well-posedness of generalized martingale problems when diffusion coefficients only depend on the position variable (not necessarily continuous). Even in the non dens…
We show the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for stochastic differential equation driven by partial $α$-stable noise and partial Brownian noise with singular coefficients. The proof is based on the regularity of degenerate mixed type Kolmogorov equation.
We consider the stochastically forced Burgers equation with an emphasis on spatially rough driving noise. We show that the law of the process at a fixed time $t$, conditioned on no explosions, is absolutely continuous with respect to the stochastic heat equation obtained by removing the nonlinearity from the equation. This establishes a form of ellipticity in this infinite dimensional setting. The results follow from a recasting of the Girsanov Theorem to handle less spatially regular solutions while only proving absolute continuity at a fixed time and not on path-space. The results are proven…
We study regularity properties for invariant measures of semilinear diffusions in a separable Hilbert space. Based on a pathwise estimate for the underlying stochastic convolution, we prove a priori estimates on such invariant measures. As an application, we combine such estimates with a new technique to prove the $L^1$-uniqueness of the induced Kolmogorov operator, defined on a space of cylindrical functions. Finally, examples of stochastic Burgers equations and thin-film growth models are given to illustrate our abstract result.
By using Fourier's transform and Fefferman-Stein's theorem, we investigate the $L^p$-maximal regularity of nonlocal parabolic and elliptic equations with singular and non-symmetric Lévy operators, and obtain the unique strong solvability of the corresponding nonlocal parabolic and elliptic equations, where the probabilistic representation plays an important role. In particular, a characterization for the domain of pseudo-differential operators of Lévy type with singular kernels is given in terms of the Bessel potential spaces. As a byproduct, we show that a large class of non-symmetric Lévy op…
The paper addresses probabilistic aspects of the KPZ equation and stochastic Burgers equation by providing a solution theory that builds on the energy solution theory Goncalves-Jara '14, Gubinelli-Jara '13, Gubinelli-Perkowski '18, Gubinelli-Perkowski '20. The perspective we adopt is to study the stochastic Burgers equation by writing its solution as a probabilistic solution Gubinelli-Perkowski '17 plus a term that can be studied with deterministic PDE considerations. One motivation is universality of KPZ and stochastic Burgers equations for a certain class of stochastic PDE growth models, fir…
We develop regularity theory for elliptic Kolmogorov operator with divergence-free drift in a large class (or, more generally, drift having singular divergence). A key step in our proofs is "Caccioppoli's iterations", used in addition to the classical De Giorgi's iterations and Moser's method.
