Temporal approximation of stochastic evolution equations with irregular nonlinearities

TL;DR

This paper proves convergence of numerical schemes for semi-linear stochastic evolution equations with irregular nonlinearities and noise on 2-smooth Banach spaces, extending previous results to more general settings including rough initial data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel convergence proof for discretisation schemes applied to stochastic evolution equations with irregular nonlinearities in Banach spaces, broadening applicability beyond Hilbert spaces.

Findings

Convergence of the uniform strong error is established as step size tends to zero.

The results extend previous convergence analyses from Hilbert to 2-smooth Banach spaces.

Application to a Schrödinger equation variant demonstrates the method's broader applicability.

Abstract

In this paper, we prove convergence for contractive time discretisation schemes for semi-linear stochastic evolution equations with irregular Lipschitz nonlinearities, initial values, and additive or multiplicative Gaussian noise on $2$-smooth Banach spaces $X$. The leading operator $A$ is assumed to generate a strongly continuous semigroup $S$ on $X$, and the focus is on non-parabolic problems. The main result concerns convergence of the uniform strong error $$E_{k}^{\infty} := \Big(\mathbb{E} \sup_{j\in \{0, \ldots, N_k\}} \|U(t_j) - U^j\|_X^p\Big)^{1/p} \to 0\quad (k \to 0),$$ where $p \in [2,\infty)$, $U$ is the mild solution, $U^j$ is obtained from a time discretisation scheme, $k$ is the step size, and $N_k = T/k$ for final time $T>0$. This generalises previous results to a larger class of admissible nonlinearities and noise, as well as rough initial data from the Hilbert space case to more general spaces. We present a proof based on a regularisation argument. Within this scope, we extend previous quantified convergence results for more regular nonlinearity and noise from Hilbert to $2$-smooth Banach spaces. The uniform strong error cannot be estimated in terms of the simpler pointwise strong error $$E_k := \bigg(\sup_{j\in \{0,\ldots,N_k\}}\mathbb{E} \|U(t_j) - U^{j}\|_X^p\bigg)^{1/p},$$ which most of the existing literature is concerned with. Our results are illustrated for a variant of the Schr\"odinger equation, for which previous convergence results were not applicable.