Pathwise uniqueness for a class of SPDEs driven by cylindrical $\alpha$-stable processes
Xiaobin Sun, Longjie Xie, Yingchao Xie

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This paper proves pathwise uniqueness for a class of stochastic partial differential equations driven by cylindrical alpha-stable processes with Hölder continuous drift, extending finite-dimensional results to infinite dimensions using a non-local Kolmogorov equation.
Contribution
It generalizes the pathwise uniqueness result for SPDEs driven by cylindrical alpha-stable processes to infinite dimensions, employing a non-local Kolmogorov equation approach.
Findings
Established pathwise uniqueness for the class of SPDEs considered.
Extended finite-dimensional results to infinite-dimensional settings.
Utilized a non-local Kolmogorov equation in the proof.
Abstract
We show the pathwise uniqueness for stochastic partial differential equation driven by a cylindrical -stable process with H\"older continuous drift, thus obtaining an infinite dimensional generalization of the result of Priola [Osaka J. Math., 2012] in the case . The proof is based on an infinite dimensional Kolmogorov equation with non-local operator.
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Pathwise uniqueness for a class of SPDEs driven by cylindrical -stable processes
††thanks: Supported by the NNSF of China (No.: 11601196, 11271169) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
Keywords and phrases: Pathwise uniqueness; Stochastic partial differential equation; -stable process
Xiaobin Sun
222E-mail: [email protected] Yingchao Xie
Abstract
We show the pathwise uniqueness for stochastic partial differential equation driven by a cylindrical -stable process with Hölder continuous drift, thus obtaining an infinite dimensional generalization of the result of Priola [Osaka J. Math., 2012] in the case . The proof is based on an infinite dimensional Kolmogorov equation with non-local operator.
1 Introduction
In this paper, we consider the following stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) in Hilbert space:
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The objects are: a separable Hilbert space with the inner product and norm , a self-adjoint operator which is the infinitesimal generator of a linear strongly continuous semigroup . The process is a cylindrical -stable process with defined on some probability space equipped with the filtration . We shall only assume is Hölder continuous with certain power. Our aim is to prove the pathwise uniqueness for SPDE (1.1), which is an infinite dimensional generalization of the result by Priola [15] in the case .
Currently, there is an increasing interests in understanding the regularization effects of noise to the deterministic equations. We refer to [9] for a review on this direction. When and , SPDE (1.1) is just the stochastic differential equation (SDE):
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In the case that is a Brownian motion, Veretennikov [23] first proved that SDE (1.2) has a unique global strong solution if is bounded and measurable. Later, Krylov and Röckner [11] shows that SDE (1.2) has a unique strong solution when with . The case that is a pure jump symmetric -stable process has more difficulties. When and
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it was proved by Priola [15] that there exists a unique strong solution to SDE (1.2) for each . Recently, Zhang [27] obtained the pathwise uniqueness to SDE (1.2) when , is bounded and belongs to certain fractional Sobolev space. See also [7, 8, 13, 16, 17, 28] and references therein for related results concerning SDEs with irregular coefficients.
For the infinite dimensional case, when is a cylindrical Winer noise and is Hölder continuous, the authors in [1] showed that there exists a unique strong solution to SPDE (1.1) for every . The extension of Veretennikov’s result to infinite dimensional with bounded was done in [2]. However, the uniqueness holds only for almost all starting point . See also [3, 4, 24, 25] and references therein.
Usually, SPDEs with jumps have more wide range of applications, we refer to the recent monograph [14]. When the drift in (1.1) is Lipschitz continuous, the existence and uniqueness of solution can be easily obtained by a fixed point argument in [21]. Later on, more concreted SPDEs driven by cylindrical -stable processes have been studied, see [5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26].
As far as we know, there is still no work on the pathwise uniqueness for SPDEs driven by pure jump Lévy process with irregular coefficient. The main difficult is that, from the analytic point of view, the generator of pure jump Lévy process is a non-local operator; and from the probability point of view, processes with jumps are more complicated than the continuous diffusion processes. We shall study the pathwise uniqueness of SPDEs (1.1) with Hölder continuous drift by solving the infinite dimensional Kolmogorov equation with non-local operator.
The paper proceeds as follows: In section 2, we state the main result. In Section 3, we study the regularity of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and solve the corresponding Kolmogorov equation. Finally, the proof of main result is given in Section 4.
Throughout our paper, we use the following convention: with or without subscripts will denote a positive constant, whose value may change in different places, and whose dependence on parameters can be traced from calculations.
2 Preliminaries and main result
Given , we denote by the usual Hölder space of functions with norm
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and let . Similar, for given , the space denotes functions satisfying
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where is the operator norm.
The cylindrical -stable process is denoted by
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where is a given sequence of positive numbers, is a complete orthonormal basis of , and are independent one dimensional rotationally symmetric -stable process, i.e., the Lévy measure of is given by
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where is a positive constant. By Lévy-Itô’s decomposition, one has
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where is the Possion random measure, i.e.,
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and is compensated Poisson measure, i.e.,
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Consider equation (1.1), we make the following assumptions:
- (i)
, with and 2. (ii)
3. (iii)
4. (iv)
There exists a such that for any and , we have
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where
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The main result of our paper is stated as follows:
Theorem 2.1
Assume that (i)-(iv) hold and for some . Then, SPDE (1.1) has a unique strong solution for each .
Remark 2.2
The condition (ii) is the sufficient and necessary condition for is a Lévy process in (see [12]). (2.3) and (2.4) in condition (iv) are used to study the smoothing property of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and regularity of the solution of the corresponding Kolmogorov equation in section 3.
We give some examples to illustrate our result.
Example 2.3
In the case that , we can take in (2.3) equals to , and this means that we need for . Thus, we go back to [15].
Example 2.4
We set , where , and denote by the boundary of . Considering the stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equation on .
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where is a cylindrical -stable process with , is pseudodifferential operator with and , is a bounded and Hölder continuous with index , where will be determined later. Put
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where is the usual Sobolev space, and
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Operator possesses a complete orthonormal system of eigenfunctions namely
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where . The corresponding eigenvalues are , where .
Moreover, notice that , if choosing with , then it is easy to verify conditions (i)-(iii) hold. Also by Remark 3.3 below, , and taking
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which verifies condition (iv). Consequently, taking Hölder index , then (2.5) has a unique strong solution by Theorem 2.1.
For instance, if , i.e., is the Laplace operator, then for any , taking
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and
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3 Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and corresponding Kolmogorov equation
3.1 -valued Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup
We first consider the following linear equation:
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Throughout this subsection, we assume that (i), (2.4) hold and
- (ii)’
There exists a positive constant such that
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Notice that condition (ii’) is weaker than (ii). Under the assumptions (i) and (ii)’, it is well-known that equation (3.6) has a unique mild solution for any initial value , which is given by
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where . The solution is called the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and has received a lot of attentions. Let be the corresponding semigroup defined by
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where is the law of and consists of all bounded functions . This semigroup has been also studied under the name of generalized Mehler semigroup. It was show in [21] that can be seen as Borel product measures in , i.e.,
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where , and is a probability measure on with density function
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here, is the density of random variable .
The next result shows that has a smoothing effect and the estimates of first and second derivative are given, which is a important step to prove our main result. Below, we also use as the action of two elements without confuse.
Theorem 3.1
For every with , , set , . Then, for any and , we have with
- (i)
First order derivative:
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where is the law of , and
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and is given by (2.4). 2. (ii)
Second order derivative:
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and
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where . 3. (iii)
Hölder continuity: for any and ,
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where is a constant.
*Proof * The results that , (3.7), (3.8) have been proved in [21, Theorem 4.14], it suffices to prove (3.9)-(3.11). In order to show (3.9) and (3.10), we mainly follow the steps in [21, Theorem 4.14]. So, we only consider the case that is cylindrical, i.e.,
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for some and . We also assume that has bounded support in . Then the general case of can be proved by an argument of approximation (see Step II-Step V in [21, Theorem 4.14]).
Fix arbitrary with . we will show that there exists , the directional derivative of , along the direction at . To shorten the notation, we write
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Let , for any . Then by (3.7), we get
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In order to pass to the limit, as , we show that
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In fact, notice that for any ,
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where the last inequality by the fact that is odd. Then, for any ,
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where .
Note that, for any ,
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Up to now we can showed that
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Using (3.12), it is easy to see that, for any , ,
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Moreover, for any , . Then by dominated convergence theorem in (3.13), we obtain
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where is the right-hand side of (3.14). This shows that is Gâteaux differentiable at along the direction and (3.9), (3.10) hold.
We proceed to show (3.11). It is easy to see that
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By taking into (3.8), we can also obtain
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Thus, we have by (3.8) and (3.15) that
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and similarly, it holds by (3.10) and (3.16) that
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Combing the above two inequalities with the interpolation theory, we can get the desired result.
Remark 3.2
By the similar argument above, we could obtain , for any , . Moreover, there exists a positive constant such that
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Remark 3.3
If there exists such that
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then we can give a upper bound of in Theorem 3.1, i.e.,
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3.2 Elliptic Kolmogorov equation
In this subsection, we always assume that (i), (ii)’ and (iv) hold. Now, we study the following Kolmogorov equation in
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where , and the operator is the infinitesimal generator of OU-semigroup , i.e.,
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Theorem 3.4
Assume that for some . Then, for big enough, every and any , there exists a function satisfying the following integral equation:
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Moreover, also solves equation (3.17) and we have
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where is a positive constant satisfying .
*Proof * Let us first show the estimate (3.19). In fact, let satisfies (3.18), without loss of generality, we may assume that . Then, by (3.11) and condition (v) we have
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where is given by
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and by dominate convergence theorem it holds that . Take big enough such that
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we get the desired result.
Now, we construct the solution of (3.18) via Picard’s iteration argument. Set and for , define recursively by
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In view of (3.8), it is easy to check that , and is thus well defined, and so on. We show that with any . In fact, thanks to (v) and using (3.11) once again, we can deduce that
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Notice that . As a result,
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Repeating the above argument, we have for every and any ,
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Moreover, for any
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we further have that
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This means that for big enough, is Cauchy sequence in . Thus, there exists a limit function with satisfying (3.18). The assertion that solves (3.17) follows by integral by part. The whole proof is finished.
Remark 3.5
It may be expected that the optimal regularity of should be . However, due to the uncertain of , we can not obtain thus estimate. Nevertheless, this is enough for us to prove the pathwise uniqueness for SPDE (1.1).
4 Strong uniqueness
We call a predictable -valued stochastic process depending on initial value , is a mild solution of equation (1.1) on the filtered probability space , if is an -adapted and satisfies
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where the deterministic integral in (4.20) is well defined by the assumption that is bounded. The existence of a solution to equation (1.1) is known under our assumptions. Thus, by the classical Yamada-Watanabe principle [10], we only need to focus on the pathwise uniqueness.
Usually, the Itô’s formula is performed for functions . However, this is too strong for our latter use. Actually, is a -stable process in our case, and we will show that Itô’s formula holds for with any , which is stated as follows:
Lemma 4.1
Let satisfies equation (1.1) and with . Then, we have
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*Proof * Let with and for every . Then we can use Itô’s formula for , i.e.,
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Now we are going to pass the limits on the both sides of the above equality. For any , it is easy to see that, as ,
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Thanks to the assumption that and in view of the following estimates:
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and
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we obtain by dominated convergence theorem that, as ,
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Finally, by the isometry formula we have
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The proof is finished.
Now, assume and let solves the following equation:
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According to Theorem 3.4, we have with . We prove the following Zvonkin’s transformation.
Lemma 4.2
Let be a solution of equation 1.1, then we have
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*Proof * Thanks to Lemma 4.1, we can use the Itô’s formula for to get that
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which give a formula for :
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We put this formula in equation (1.1) and get
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then follow the usual variation of constant method and get
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Finally, the integration by parts formula implies
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The proof is complete.
The following result was proved in [15] in finite dimensional. For the sake of completeness, we provide a simple proof here.
Lemma 4.3
For every and any , we have
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*Proof * Set
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It is obvious that for any ,
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Thus, we can deduce that
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The proof is complete.
We are now in the position to give the proof of our main result.
Proof of Theorem 2.1: Since uniqueness is a local property, we only need to consider on the interval with small. Let and be two solutions of equation (1.1) both starting from . Then, by (4.21) we have satisfies the following equation:
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where
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and
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In view of (3.19), we have
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Notice that by the maximal inequality,
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where is a constant independent of . Then we have the following estimate:
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Since , taking sufficient large such that and small enough such that , then we have
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Meanwhile,
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Since we assumed that , there always exists a such that
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As a result, we have by (4.22)
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Hence,
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By assumption, is finite and when , it converges to zero. Therefor we can obtain as small enough. This implies . The proof is complete.
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