Pathwise uniqueness in infinite dimension under weak structure conditions

TL;DR

This paper establishes pathwise uniqueness for a class of infinite-dimensional stochastic differential equations with weak structure conditions, covering important equations like stochastic damped wave and Euler–Bernoulli beam equations.

Contribution

It proves Lipschitz dependence on initial data and pathwise uniqueness under weak assumptions, extending results to hyperbolic SPDEs in multiple dimensions.

Findings

Pathwise uniqueness holds for the considered class of SPDEs.

Lipschitz dependence on initial data is established.

Results apply to stochastic damped wave and Euler–Bernoulli beam equations.

Abstract

Let $U,H$ be two separable Hilbert spaces and $T>0$. We consider an SDE which evolves in the Hilbert space $H$ of the form \begin{align} dX(t)=AX(t)dt+\widetilde{\mathscr L}B(X(t))dt+GdW(t), \quad t\in[0,T], \quad X(0)=x \in H, \end{align} where $A:D(A)\subseteq H\to H$ is the infinitesimal generator of a strongly continuous semigroup $(e^{tA})_{t\geq0}$, $W=(W(t))_{t\geq0}$ is a $U$-cylindrical Wiener process defined on a normal filtered probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{F},\{\mathcal{F}_t\}_{t\in [0,T]},\mathbb{P})$, $B:H\to H$ is a bounded and $\theta$-H\"older continuous function, for some suitable $\theta\in(0,1)$, and $\widetilde{\mathscr L}:H\to H$ and $G:U\to H$ are linear bounded operators. We prove that, under suitable assumptions on the coefficients, the weak mild solution to the equation depends on the initial datum in a Lipschitz way. This implies that pathwise uniqueness holds true. Here, the presence of the operator $\Lambda$ plays a crucial role. In particular the conditions assumed on the coefficients cover the stochastic damped wave equation in dimension $1$ and the stochastic damped Euler--Bernoulli Beam equation upto dimension $3$ even in the hyperbolic case.