Nonlinear parabolic stochastic evolution equations in critical spaces Part II. Blow-up criteria and instantaneous regularization

TL;DR

This paper develops new blow-up criteria and regularization methods for nonlinear stochastic PDEs in critical spaces, enabling proofs of global existence and higher regularity even with rough initial data.

Contribution

It introduces novel blow-up criteria and a bootstrap regularization technique for stochastic PDEs, extending existing results to rough initial conditions and less restrictive nonlinearities.

Findings

New blow-up criteria for stochastic evolution equations.

A bootstrap method for regularity without smooth initial data.

Application to classical SPDEs like Navier-Stokes and reaction-diffusion.

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of Part I of this project, where we developed a new local well-posedness theory for nonlinear stochastic PDEs with Gaussian noise. In the current Part II we consider blow-up criteria and regularization phenomena. As in Part I we can allow nonlinearities with polynomial growth, and rough initial values from critical spaces. In the first main result we obtain several new blow-up criteria for quasi- and semilinear stochastic evolution equations. In particular, for semilinear equations we obtain a Serrin type blow-up criterium, which extends a recent result of Pr\"uss-Simonett-Wilke (2018) to the stochastic setting. Blow-up criteria can be used to prove global well-posedness for SPDEs. As in Part I, maximal regularity techniques and weights in time play a central role in the proofs. Our second contribution is a new method to bootstrap Sobolev and H\"older regularity in time and space, which does not require smoothness of the initial data. The blow-up criteria are at the basis of these new methods. Moreover, in applications the bootstrap results can be combined with our blow-up criteria, to obtain efficient ways to prove global existence. This gives new results even in classical $L^2$-settings, which we illustrate for a concrete SPDE. In future works in preparation we apply the results of the current paper to obtain global well-posedness results, and regularity for several concrete SPDEs. These include stochastic Navier-Stokes, reaction diffusion equations, and Allen-Cahn equations. Our setting allows to put these SPDEs into a more flexible framework, where less restrictions on the nonlinearities are needed, and we are able to treat rough initial values from critical spaces. Moreover, we will obtain higher order regularity results.