Blow-up for the one dimensional stochastic wave equations
WeiJun Deng

TL;DR
This paper investigates conditions under which solutions to a class of one-dimensional stochastic wave equations become unbounded in finite time, addressing an open problem and introducing a new comparative approach.
Contribution
It develops an $ ext{Omega}_ ext{delta}$-comparative method to prove finite-time blow-up of solutions under specific nonlinear noise conditions.
Findings
Solutions blow up in finite time with positive probability.
The approach addresses an open problem in stochastic wave equations.
Conditions on initial data and noise are critical for blow-up.
Abstract
The paper is concerned with the problem of explosive solutions for a class of semilinear stochastic wave equations. The challenging open problem(\cite{CMullR}) which is raised by C.Mueller and G.Richards is included in this problem.We develop an -comparative approach. With the aid of new approach, under appropriate conditions on the initial data and the nonlinear multiplicative noise term with , we prove in Theorem 3.1 that the solutions to the stochastic wave equation will blow up in finite time with positive probability.
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TopicsStochastic processes and financial applications · Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems · Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Blow-up for the one dimensional stochastic wave equations
WeiJun Deng222School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R.China ().
Abstract
The paper is concerned with the problem of explosive solutions for a class of semilinear stochastic wave equations. The challenging open problem([17]) which is raised by C.Mueller and G.Richards is included in this problem.We develop an -comparative approach. With the aid of new approach, under appropriate conditions on the initial data and the nonlinear multiplicative noise term with , we prove in Theorem 3.1 that the solutions to the stochastic wave equation will blow up in finite time with positive probability.
keywords:
semilinear stochastic wave equation,finite time blow-up,comparative approach, 2-parameter white noise.
AMS:
60H15,60H30,35L05,35L15,35R60.
1 Introduction
Consider the initial value problem for the nonlinear stochastic wave equation:
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Here is locally Lipschitz function and satisfy
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are given constants,, is 2-parameter white noise.
In this article we want to study blow-up phenomena:does solutions to stochastic wave equation(1.1) finite time blow-up occur with positive probability? It is expected that such a white noise has a strong influence on the solutions which blow-up. The challenging open problem([17]) which is raised by C.Mueller and G.Richards is included in this problem.
For deterministic nonlinear partial differential equations,there is a very extensive literature on blow-up in finite time.Let us just mention a few:([1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]),for example.
On the other hand, for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE), there are very few papers about finite time blow-up. It is mathematically very difficult to consider space-time white noises,this is due to the lack of smoothing effect in the stochastic differential equation. We refer the reader to ([16, 15, 13, 4, 3, 14]) for new developments.
Our strategy to study the blow-up is based on the -comparative approach. We divide our proof in five steps.
First,we introduce a blow-up lemma for one dimensional semilinear wave equations. Next,we establish a comparison lemma on semilinear wave equations. Another step in the proof is we need to verify the essential supremum of the solution of (1.1) over a subset of the probability space,will blow up in finite time. We utilize the close relationship between stochastic partial differential equations and deterministic partial differential equations. Using reduction to absurdity method,suppose that on the contrary, the essential supremum of the solution of (1.1) exists for a long time over a subset of the probability space. Consider the deterministic partial differential equations:
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suppose that increases fast,in other words,. By the first step,under appropriate conditions on the initial data solutions of (1.2) will blow up in finite time. Then we construct a comparison between square moment of the solution of (1.1) over the subset and solution of (1.2), apply the previous comparison lemma to get conflicting results. The fourth steps to do in the proof is that the essential infimum of the blow-up time of the solution of (1.1) is bounded. Finally,we show that the solutions of (1.1) will blow up in bound time with positive probability.
With the aid of the -comparative approach, under appropriate conditions on the initial data and the nonlinear multiplicative noise term with , we prove in Theorem 3.1 that the solution of the stochastic wave equation will blow up in bound time with positive probability.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We shall first give problem statement and preliminaries in Section 2. Then, in Section 3,we develop a comparative approach and prove the main theorem (Theorem 3.1).
2 Problem statement and preliminaries
2.1 Problem statement
Let be an uncountable Polish space with the metric and be the topological -field. Suppose is a 2-parameter white noise defined on the complete probability space .
Let us discuss the rigorous meaning of solution to (1.1), and the definition of finite time blow-up.We regard (1.1) as short-hand for the following integral equation
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which may only be well-defined for a small time (see below).Here denotes convolution,i.e.
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and are the wave kernels:
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where is the delta function.
The above formula for should be interpreted in the sense of Schwartz distributions. One can define a solution to (1.1) in terms of distributions and then show that such a solution exists if and only if (2.3) holds. The integral in (2.3) involving should be interpreted in the sense of Walsh’s theory of martingale measures (see [20],chapter 2).By standard arguments (e.g. see Theorem 3.2 and exercise 3.7 in Walsh [20]) (2.3) has a unique continuous solution valid for , where
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and the infimum of the empty set is taken to be Letting we conclude that (1.1) has a unique solution for where
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It follows that, if then With these definitions in place,if , we say that solutions to (1.1) blow up in finite time with positive probability.
2.2 Preliminaries
We shall use the following Lemmas:
Lemma 1**.**
Consider the following initial value problem for the nonlinear stochastic wave equation:
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The function are measurable and there exists a constant , such that for ,
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.Then the equation (LABEL:2005) has a unique solution,which has a Hlder continuous version.
Proof.
Existence,uniqueness and Hlder continuous of the solution to the non-linear stochastic wave equation (LABEL:2005) is covered in ([20],p.323,Exercise 3.7).The proof is omit.
Lemma 2**.**
Let be a solution of the following initial-boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation:
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for which . Then .
Proof.
Applying Proposition 3.1 of ([18],P433) and Corollary 1.6 of ([18],P421),we can easily prove the conclusion.
Lemma 3**.**
([7],P185,Lemma 1.1) Let satisfy
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with Suppose that for all Then
(1) wherever exists;and
(2) the inequality
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obtains.
We define the collection
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as a centered Gaussian random field with covariance given by
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where denotes the Lebesgue measure on
We define for each the -algebra
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where are the totality of -null sets of . Then,it is clear that the filtered complete probability space satisfies usual hypotheses.
In order to express the idea of the proof clearly,let us define the following concept.
Definition 2.1**.**
Let be a random variable defined on the complete probability space , be an open set, is called the partial expectation of ,if
The partial expectation operator- has the following proposition:
Proposition 2.2**.**
Let be a 2-parameter white noise,and be a complete probability space, is predictable and . Then,it follows that
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and
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Moreover,Burkholder’s inequality and Kolmogorov Lemma on -version also hold.
Proofs of the above results are straightforward by the definitions of stochastic integral and the indicator of be an -predictable random process.
Let us introduce the following lemma that will be used later.
Lemma 4**.**
([19],P2,Proposition 2.1) Let be an Polish space, be the topological -field, and be a probability on . Then,for every
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3 Blow-up for initial data
Let denote the first eigenfunction for the problem under the Dirichlet condition on and let be the corresponding first eigenvalue, i.e. .
We assume that
H1) there exist such that
H2) and
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Consider the initial value problem for the nonlinear stochastic wave equation:
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Here is locally Lipschitz function and satisfy
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are given constants, is given by (3.13),, is 2-parameter white noise.
The main result of this article is the following.
Theorem 5**.**
The solution of (3.14),for which and are satisfied,will blow up in bounded time with positive probability, more precisely,for all
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where is given by (3.13).
Before proving this theorem,the following lemmas are introduced.
Lemma 6**.**
Let be a solution of the following initial-boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation:
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for which are satisfied. Then
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for some finite ,where is given by (3.13).
Proof.
The solution satisfies the following nonlinear integral equation:
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where and denotes convolution,i.e.
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By Lemma 2,we have .Let multiply (3.15) by and integrate over we obtain
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By Jensen’s inequality,we have ,since Using integration by parts and the boundary conditions satisfied by and ,we see that
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Thus we arrive at
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with
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Hypothesis H2) implies that Lemma 3 is applicable with ; therefore
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and thus develops a singularity in a finite time ,where
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Finally,since we have
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which proves the Lemma.
Now let us prove the following comparison Lemma which could be also of interest in itself.
Lemma 7**.**
Let satisfy equation (3.15),,define
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where and is given by the Lemma 6. Then the set has the following properties:
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Proof.
(1)First of all,noting if let define ,then we have
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for Thus i.e. is a nonempty set. Next,by Jensen’s inequality,It is easy to see that is a convex set. In order to prove (2) we use (1),if (2) is false, then there exists and , such that , since and is non-intersect. Select as above,then there exists such that , thus we obtain intersects with , this is a contradiction,the proof is complete.
We present the following result that the essential supremum of the solution of (3.14) over a subset of the probability space,will blow up in finite time.
Lemma 8**.**
Let is the solution of (3.14),for which and are satisfied. Then,for given an open set it follows that
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for some bounded time ,where is given by (3.13).
Before proving Lemma 8,let us remark on some details of our approach.
If , by the Definition 2.1 of the partial expectation operator-,it is clear that
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and
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for . It follows that the equation (3.14) exists a continuous local solution on for , since (by Proposition 2.2) the Burkholder’s inequality and Kolmogorov Lemma on -version hold. Moreover,by(3.17),using dominated convergence theorem, we can carry out
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We now turn to the proof of Lemma 8.
Proof.
Suppose that . If define by (2.10),(2.11),(2.3) and (LABEL:300),using Jensen’s inequality and Schwarz’s inequality, noting ,, and then we have
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Now,combining (3.19) and (3.20),using Lemma 7,we obtain
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Thus we arrive at
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Let by Lemma 6,we have this contradicts with (3.17).Thus there exists some bounded time such that The proof is complete.
The following lemma tells us a fact that the essential infimum of the blow-up time of the solution of (1.1) is bounded:
Lemma 9**.**
Let is given by (2.6) and then we have
Proof.
In order to express the corresponding notations clearly,we replace by Recall that by Lemma 8, for given an open set if define
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then we have and .
It is easy to show that is also a Polish space with the metric since be a open set.The closure of in ,denoted by , and the boundary set of in ,denoted by , if define ,then we have
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Indeed,by the continuity of , the boundary set of in satisfy
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This leads to for all
Moreover,noting that is a Polish space with the metric ,it follows that there exist , since is a closed set sequence and for all . Due to (3.23) and , it is evident to see that and . If plug back into (3.22),then we obtain
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Let ,it is now obvious that
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In addition,it is evident that,according to the conclusion of Lemma 4 and the definition of
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Combining (3.25) and (3.26),we get
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This completes the proof of Lemma 9.
We are now in a position to prove Theorem 5.
Proof.
Suppose that on the contrary,there exists such that then according to the definition of we have
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However,by Lemma 9,we have this leads to a contradiction. Thus,for all ,we have the proof is complete.
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