Transport-diffusion equations with irregular data and applications to stability estimates for second-order Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs

TL;DR

This paper establishes new stability and uniqueness estimates for transport-diffusion and Hamilton-Jacobi equations under irregular data conditions, with explicit constants and applications to PDE stability analysis.

Contribution

It introduces novel $L^p$ and $L^ty$ stability estimates for PDEs with irregular velocity fields, expanding understanding of solution uniqueness without viscosity solution theory.

Findings

Proved $L^p$-stability estimates under divergence conditions on $b$.

Established $L^ty$ stability for solutions with non-integrable divergence.

Derived explicit continuous dependence estimates for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.

Abstract

This paper studies quantitative uniqueness properties in $L^p$ spaces for Fokker-Planck and transport-diffusion equations under two new assumptions on their velocity field $b=b(x,t)$. We first prove $L^p$-stability estimates for advection-diffusion PDEs when $\mathrm{div}(b)\in L^r_t(L^q_x)$ with $r\in[2,\infty]$ and $q\in[n/2,\infty)$ satisfying the compatibility condition $n/(2q)+1/r\leq 1$. We then prove a stability result in $L^\infty$ for solutions of viscous transport equations when $\mathrm{div}(b(t))$ fails to be integrable in time. We apply these properties to obtain new continuous dependence estimates for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations via integral methods. One of the main novelties in this latter setting is that the constants of the estimates are all explicit with respect to the data of the problem. These imply new uniqueness properties for diffusive Hamilton-Jacobi equations without relying on the theory of viscosity solutions.