A new maximal regularity for parabolic equations and an application

TL;DR

This paper develops new maximal regularity results for parabolic equations using advanced function spaces and applies these to establish the strong solvability of certain stochastic differential equations with low regularity drifts, addressing a long-standing open problem.

Contribution

The paper introduces novel Lebesgue--H"older--Dini spaces and proves maximal regularity results, then applies these to solve stochastic differential equations with minimal regularity assumptions on the drift.

Findings

Established maximal regularity for parabolic equations in new function spaces.

Proved unique strong solvability for SDEs with low regularity drifts.

Provided partial solutions to an open problem posed by Krylov and R"ockner.

Abstract

We introduce the Lebesgue--H\"{o}lder--Dini and Lebesgue--H\"{o}lder spaces $L^p(\mathbb{R};{\mathcal C}_{\vartheta,\varsigma}^{\alpha,\rho}({\mathbb R}^n))$ ($\vartheta\in \{l,b\}, \, \varsigma\in \{d,s,c,w\}$, $p\in (1,+\infty]$ and $\alpha\in [0,1)$), and then use a vector-valued Calder\'{o}n--Zygmund theorem to establish the maximal Lebesgue--H\"{o}lder--Dini and Lebesgue--H\"{o}lder regularity for a class of parabolic equations. As an application, we obtain the unique strong solvability of the following stochastic differential equation \begin{eqnarray*} X_{s,t}(x)=x+\int\limits_s^tb(r,X_{s,r}(x))dr+W_t-W_{s}, \ \ t\in [s,T], \ x\in \mathbb{R}^n, \ s\in [0,T], \end{eqnarray*} for the low regularity growing drift in critical Lebesgue--H\"{o}lder--Dini spaces $L^p([0,T];{\mathcal C}^{\frac{2}{p}-1,\rho}_{l,d}({\mathbb R}^n;{\mathbb R}^n))$ ($p\in (1,2]$), where $\{W_t\}_{0\leq t\leq T}$ is a $n$-dimensional standard Wiener process. In particular, when $p=2$ we give a partially affirmative answer to a longstanding open problem, which was proposed by Krylov and R\"{o}ckner for $b\in L^2([0,T];L^\infty({\mathbb R}^n;{\mathbb R}^n))$ based upon their work ({\em Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 131(2): 154--196, 2005}).