We introduce a new method of proving pathwise uniqueness, and we apply it to the degenerate stochastic differential equation \[dX_t=|X_t|^α dW_t,\] where $W_t$ is a one-dimensional Brownian motion and $α\in(0,1/2)$. Weak uniqueness does not hold for the solution to this equation. If one restricts attention, however, to those solutions that spend zero time at 0, then pathwise uniqueness does hold and a strong solution exists. We also consider a class of stochastic differential equations with reflection.
We extend the Yamada-Watanabe condition for pathwise uniqueness to stochastic differential equations with jumps, in the special case where small jumps are summable.
A new proof of pathwise uniqueness for SDEs with Sobolev diffusion and integrable drift term is introduced by extending a method from E. Fedrizzi and F. Flandoli (Pathwise uniqueness and continuous dependence of SDEs with non-regular drift, Stochastics 83 (2011), pp. 241--257) to the case of nonconstant diffusion.
We give a simple proof that in a Lipschitz domain in two dimensions with Lipschitz constant one, there is pathwise uniqueness for the Skorokhod equation governing reflecting Brownian motion.
We show pathwise uniqueness for a class of degenerate Itô-SDE among all of its weak solutions that spend zero time at the points of degeneracy of the dispersion matrix. Consequently, by the Yamada-Watanabe Theorem and a weak existence result, the pathwise unique solutions can be shown to be strong and to exist. The main tools to show pathwise uniqueness are inequalities associated with maximal functions and a Krylov type estimate derived from elliptic regularity and uniqueness in law.
We construct a series of stochastic differential equations of the form $dX_t = b(t, X_t) dt + dB_t$ which exhibit nonuniqueness in the path-by-path sense while having a unique adapted solution in the sense of stochastic processes, i.e. pathwise uniqueness holds.
For $α\in (0,1)$, we consider stochastic differential equations driven by one-sided stable processes of order $α$: \[dX_t= ϕ(X_{t-})\ dZ_t.\] We prove that pathwise uniqueness holds for this equation under the assumptions that $ϕ$ is continuous, non-decreasing and positive on $\R$. A counterexample is given to show that the positivity of $ϕ$ is crucial for pathwise uniqueness to hold.
Based on the weak existence and weak uniqueness, we study the pathwise uniqueness of the solutions for a class of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations driven by pure jump processes. By using Tanaka's formula and the local time technique, we show that there is no gap between the strong uniqueness and weak uniqueness when the coefficients of the Poisson random measures satisfy a suitable condition
We prove pathwise uniqueness for solutions of parabolic stochastic pde's with multiplicative white noise if the coefficient is Hölder continuous of index $γ>3/4$. The method of proof is an infinite-dimensional version of the Yamada-Watanabe argument for ordinary stochastic differential equations.
Pathwise uniqueness for multi-dimensional stochastic McKean--Vlasov equation is established under moderate regularity conditions on the drift and diffusion coefficients. Both drift and diffusion depend on the marginal measure of the solution. For pathwise uniqueness, the drift is assumed to be Dini-continuous in the state variable, while the diffusion must be Lipschitz, continuous in time and uniformly nondegenerate. The setting is classical McKean--Vlasov, that is, coefficients of the equation are represented as integrals over the marginal distributions of the process.
Here we study stochastic differential equations with a reflecting boundary condition. We provide sufficient conditions for pathwise uniqueness and non-explosion property of solutions in a framework admitting non-Lipschitz continuous coefficients and non-smooth domains.
We show the pathwise uniqueness for stochastic partial differential equation driven by a cylindrical $α$-stable process with Hölder continuous drift, thus obtaining an infinite dimensional generalization of the result of Priola [Osaka J. Math., 2012] in the case $H=\mathbb{R}^d$. The proof is based on an infinite dimensional Kolmogorov equation with non-local operator.
We consider the existence and pathwise uniqueness of the stochastic heat equation with a multiplicative colored noise term on IR^d for d greater or equal to 1. We focus on the case of non-Lipschitz noise coefficients and singular spatial noise correlations. In the course of the proof a new result on Hoelder continuity of the solutions near zero is established.
We consider one-dimensional stochastic differential equations with jumps in the general case. We introduce new technics based on local time and we prove new results on pathwise uniqueness and comparison theorems. Our approach are very easy to handled and don't need any approximation approach. Similar equations without jumps were studied in the same context by \cite{Le Gall}, \cite{Ouknine} and others authors. As an application we get a new condition on the pathwise uniqueness for the solutions to stochastic differential equations driven by a symmetric stable Lévy processes.
In this paper we review and improve pathwise uniqueness results for some types of one-dimensional stochastic differential equations (SDE) involving the local time of the unknown process. The diffusion coefficient of the SDEs we consider is allowed to vanish on a set of positive measure and is not assumed to be smooth. As opposed to various existing results, our arguments are mainly based on the comparison theorem for local time and the occupation time formula. We apply our pathwise uniqueness results to derive strong existence and other properties of solutions for SDEs with rough coefficients.
We study a one-dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by a stable Lévy process of order $α$ with drift and diffusion coefficients $b,σ$. When $α\in (1,2)$, we investigate pathwise uniqueness for this equation. When $α\in (0,1)$, we study another stochastic differential equation, which is equivalent in law, but for which pathwise uniqueness holds under much weaker conditions. We obtain various results, depending on whether $α\in (0,1)$ or $α\in (1,2)$ and on whether the driving stable process is symmetric or not. Our assumptions involve the regularity and monotonicity of $b$ and $σ…
A new proof of a pathwise uniqueness result of Krylov and Röckner is given. It concerns SDEs with drift having only certain integrability properties. In spite of the poor regularity of the drift, pathwise continuous dependence on initial conditions may be obtained, by means of this new proof. The proof is formulated in such a way to show that the only major tool is a good regularity theory for the heat equation forced by a function with the same regularity of the drift.
We study the solutions of the stochastic heat equation driven by spatially inhomogeneous multiplicative white noise based on a fractal measure. We prove pathwise uniqueness for solutions of this equation when the noise coefficient is Hölder continuous of index $γ>1-\fracη{2(η+1)}$. Here $η\in(0,1)$ is a constant that defines the spatial regularity of the noise.
We study a class of stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitzian coefficients.A unique strong solution is obtained and a large deviation principle of Freidln-Wentzell type has been established.
Our aim in this paper is to establish some strong stability properties of a solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion for which the pathwise uniqueness holds. The results are obtained using Skorokhod's selection theorem.
We study the solutions of the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative space-time white noise. We prove a comparison theorem between the solutions of stochastic heat equations with the same noise coefficient which is Hölder continuous of index $γ>3/4$, and drift coefficients that are Lipschitz continuous. Later we use the comparison theorem to get sufficient conditions for the pathwise uniqueness for solutions of the stochastic heat equation, when both the white noise and the drift coefficients are Hölder continuous.
We consider strong uniqueness and thus also existence of strong solutions for the stochastic heat equation with a multiplicative colored noise term. Here, the noise is white in time and colored in q dimensional space ($q \geq 1$) with a singular correlation kernel. The noise coefficient is Hölder continuous in the solution. We discuss improvements of the sufficient conditions obtained in Mytnik, Perkins and Sturm (2006) that relate the Hölder coefficient with the singularity of the correlation kernel of the noise. For this we use new ideas of Mytnik and Perkins (2011) who treat the case of str…
In this paper we study the pathwise uniqueness of solution to the following stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with Hölder continuous coefficient: \begin{eqnarray*} \frac{\partial X_t(x)}{\partial t}=\frac{1}{2} ΔX_t(x) +G(X_t(x))+H(X_{t-}(x)) \dot{L}_t(x),~~~ t>0, ~x\in\mathbb{R}, \end{eqnarray*} where $\dot{L}$ denotes an $α$-stable white noise on $\mathbb{R}_+\times \mathbb{R}$ without negative jumps, $G$ satisfies the Lipschitz condition and $H$ is nondecreasing and $β$-Hölder continuous for $1<α<2$ and $0<β<1$. For $G\equiv0$ and $H(x)=x^β$, in Mytnik (2002) a weak solution t…
We investigate pathwise uniqueness for the squared Bessel and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross processes with additional reflection term that is multiplied by some real number strictly between minus one and one. The reflection term is the symmetric local time of the corresponding processes at a deterministic time dependent curve.
We prove pathwise uniqueness for stochastic differential equations driven by non-degenerate symmetric $α$-stable Lévy processes with values in $\R^d$ having a bounded and $β$-Hölder continuous drift term. We assume $β> 1 - \fracα{2} $ and $α\in [ 1, 2)$. The proof requires analytic regularity results for associated integro-differential operators of Kolmogorov type. We also study differentiability of solutions with respect to initial conditions and the homeomorphism property.
We study the stochastic effect on the three-dimensional inviscid primitive equations (PEs, also called the hydrostatic Euler equations). Specifically, we consider a larger class of noises than multiplicative noises, and work in the analytic function space due to the ill-posedness in Sobolev spaces of PEs without horizontal viscosity. Under proper conditions, we prove the local existence of martingale solutions and pathwise uniqueness. By adding vertical viscosity, i.e., considering the hydrostatic Navier-Stokes equations, we can relax the restriction on initial conditions to be only analytic i…
White-noise case stochastic heat equation was derived from Dawson-Watanabe superprocess. The pathwise uniqueness of their solutions with non-Lipschitz coefficients has attracted wide attention and in particular, the square-root coefficient case was listed as a long standing open problem in the famous literature (i.e. Perkins \cite{Perkins02} p217.) This short note gives an affirmative answer to this open problem. Our idea is using the $φ_k(x)$ function constructed by Yamada-Watanable to prove that \beqlb \lab{key} \E_μ| X_{t}(z)-Y_{t}(z) | = \lim_{k \ra \infty} \E_μ|\int_{\r}\frac{1}{\sqrt{ε_k…
We study the existence and uniqueness of the stochastic viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate, second order stochastic pde with quadratic Hamiltonians associated to a Riemannian geometry. The results are new and extend the class of equations studied so far by the last two authors.
Recently, Kurtz (2007, 2014) obtained a general version of the Yamada-Watanabe and Engelbert theorems relating existence and uniqueness of weak and strong solutions of stochastic equations covering also the case of stochastic differential equations with jumps. Following the original method of Yamada and Watanabe (1971), we give alternative proofs for the following two statements: pathwise uniqueness implies uniqueness in the sense of probability law, and weak existence together with pathwise uniqueness imply strong existence for stochastic differential equations with jumps.
The Tanaka equation $dX_t={\operatorname{sign}}(X_t)\,dB_t$ is an example of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) without strong solution. Hence pathwise uniqueness does not hold for this equation. In this note we prove that if we modify the right-hand side of the equation, roughly speaking, with a strong enough additive noise, independent of the Brownian motion B, then the solution of the obtained equation is pathwise unique.
This paper is devoted to the study of hyperbolic systems of linear partial differential equations perturbed by a Brownian motion. The existence and uniqueness of solutions are proved by an energy method. The specific features of this class of stochastic partial differential equations are highlighted and the comparison with standard existence results for SPDEs is discussed. The small perturbations problem is studied and a large deviation principle is stated. A pathwise approximation result, similar to the stochastic differential equations case, is established, with an application to a support t…
In a recent paper by the first two named authors, existence of martingale solutions to a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation driven by a Lévy noise was proved. In this paper, we prove pathwise uniqueness, uniqueness in law and existence of strong solutions to this problem using an abstract uniqueness result of Kurtz.
In the article, Zakai and Kushner-Stratonovich equations of the nonlinear filtering problem for a non-Gaussian signal-observation system are considered. Moreover, we prove that under some general assumption, the Zakai equation has pathwise uniqueness and uniqueness in joint law, and the Kushner-Stratonovich equation is unique in joint law.
This paper deals with the drift estimation in linear stochastic evolution equations (with emphasis on linear SPDEs) with additive fractional noise (with Hurst index ranging from 0 to 1) via least-squares procedure. Since the least-squares estimator contains stochastic integrals of divergence type, we address the problem of its pathwise (and robust to observation errors) evaluation by comparison with the pathwise integral of Stratonovich type and using its chain-rule property. The resulting pathwise LSE is then defined implicitly as a solution to a non-linear equation. We study its numerical pr…
We consider a locally uniformly strictly elliptic second order partial differential operator in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, with low regularity assumptions on its coefficients, as well as an associated Hunt process and semigroup. The Hunt process is known to solve a corresponding stochastic differential equation that is pathwise unique. In this situation, we study the relation of invariance, infinitesimal invariance, recurrence, transience, conservativeness and $L^r$-uniqueness, and present sufficient conditions for non-existence of finite infinitesimally invariant measures as well as finite inv…
We study existence and uniqueness of solutions for second order ordinary stochastic differential equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a given interval. In the first part of the paper we provide sufficient conditions to ensure pathwise uniqueness, extending some known results. In the second part we show sufficient conditions to have the weaker concept of uniqueness in law and provide a significant example. Such conditions involve a linearized equation and are of different type with respect to the ones which are usually imposed to study pathwise uniqueness. This seems to be the first …
We study a notion of local time for a continuous path, defined as a limit of suitable discrete quantities along a general sequence of partitions of the time interval. Our approach subsumes other existing definitions and agrees with the usual (stochastic) local times a.s. for paths of a continuous semimartingale. We establish pathwise version of the Itô-Tanaka, change of variables and change of time formulae. We provide equivalent conditions for existence of pathwise local time. Finally, we study in detail how the limiting objects, the quadratic variation and the local time, depend on the choic…
We introduce the notion of pathwise entropy solutions for a class of degenerate parabolic-hyperbolic equations with non-isotropic nonlinearity and fluxes with rough time dependence and prove their well-posedness. In the case of Brownian noise and periodic boundary conditions, we prove that the pathwise entropy solutions converge to their spatial average and provide an estimate on the rate of convergence. The third main result of the paper is a new regularization result in the spirit of averaging lemmata. This work extends both the framework of pathwise entropy solutions for stochastic scalar c…
We consider a degenerate stochastic differential equation that has a sticky point in the Markov process sense. We prove that weak existence and weak uniqueness hold, but that pathwise uniqueness does not hold nor does a strong solution exist.
We study questions of existence and uniqueness of weak and strong solutions for a one-sided Tanaka equation with constant drift λ. We observe a dichotomy in terms of the values of the drift parameter: for λ\leq 0, there exists a strong solution which is pathwise unique, thus also unique in distribution; whereas for λ>0, the equation has a unique in distribution weak solution, but no strong solution (and not even a weak solution that spends zero time at the origin). We also show that strength and pathwise uniqueness are restored to the equation via suitable "Brownian perturbations".
Pathwise non-uniqueness is established for non-negative solutions of the parabolic stochastic pde $$\frac{\partial X}{\partial t}=\fracΔ{2}X+X^p\dot W+ψ,\ X_0\equiv 0$$ where $\dot W$ is a white noise, $ψ\ge 0$ is smooth, compactly supported and non-trivial, and $0<p<1/2$. We further show that any solution spends positive time at the 0 function.
In this work we consider a stochastic version of the Primitive Equations (PEs) of the ocean and the atmosphere and establish the existence and uniqueness of pathwise, strong solutions. The analysis employs novel techniques in contrast to previous works in order to handle a general class of nonlinear noise structures and to allow for physically relevant boundary conditions. The proof relies on Cauchy estimates, stopping time arguments and anisotropic estimates.
We establish the existence and uniqueness for a one-dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by a Brownian motion and a pure jump {\levy} process. It is shown that under fairly general conditions on the coefficients, pathwise uniqueness holds based on the methods of weak uniqueness and local time technique.
