On weak solutions of stochastic differential equations with sharp drift coefficients

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for certain stochastic differential equations with critical Lebesgue space drift coefficients, extending previous results and establishing properties like the strong Feller property and solution densities.

Contribution

It extends Krylov and R"ockner's results to critical Lebesgue space drifts, providing new existence, uniqueness, and regularity results for SDEs with sharp drift coefficients.

Findings

Proved existence and uniqueness of weak solutions under critical Lebesgue space conditions.

Established the strong Feller property and existence of densities for the solutions.

Extended PDE regularity results to broader function spaces.

Abstract

We extend Krylov and R\"{o}ckner's result \cite{KR} to the drift coefficients in critical Lebesgue space, and prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for a class of SDEs. To be more precise, let $b: [0,T]\times{\mathbb R}^d\rightarrow{\mathbb R}^d$ be Borel measurable, where $T>0$ is arbitrarily fixed. Consider $$X_t=x+\int_0^tb(s,X_s)ds+W_t,\quad t\in[0,T], \, x\in{\mathbb R}^d,$$ where $\{W_t\}_{t\in[0,T]}$ is a $d$-dimensional standard Wiener process. If $b=b_1+b_2$ such that $b_1(T-\cdot)\in\mathcal{C}_q^0((0,T];L^p({\mathbb R}^d))$ with $2/q+d/p=1$ for $p,q\ge1$ and $\|b_1(T-\cdot)\|_{\mathcal{C}_q((0,T];L^p({\mathbb R}^d))}$ is sufficiently small, and that $b_2$ is bounded and Borel measurable, then there exits a unique weak solution to the above equation. Furthermore, we obtain the strong Feller property of the semi-group and existence of density associated with above SDE. Besides, we extend the classical partial differential equations (PDEs) results for $L^q(0,T;L^p({\mathbb R}^d))$ coefficients to $L^\infty_q(0,T;L^p({\mathbb R}^d))$ ones, and derive the Lipschitz regularity for solutions of second order parabolic PDEs (see Lemma 2.1).