We prove pathwise uniqueness for solutions of parabolic stochastic pdes with multiplicative white noise if the coefficient is Holder continuous of index $gamma>3/4$. The method of proof is an infinite-dimensional version of the Yamada-Watanabe argument for ordinary stochastic differential equations.
It is well-known that for a one dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by Brownian noise, with coefficient functions satisfying the assumptions of the Yamada-Watanabe theorem cite{yamada1,yamada2} and the Feller test for explosions cite{feller51,feller54}, there exists a unique stationary distribution with respect to the Markov semigroup of transition probabilities. We consider systems on a restricted domain $D$ of the phase space $mathbb{R}$ and study the rate of convergence to the stationary distribution. Using a geometrical approach that uses the so called {it free energy function} on the density function space, we prove that the density functions, which are solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation, converge to the stationary density function exponentially under the Kullback-Leibler {divergence}, thus also in the total variation norm. The results show that there is a relation between the Bakry-Emery curvature dimension condition and the dissipativity condition of the transformed system under the Fisher-Lamperti transformation. Several applications are discussed, including the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model and the Ait-Sahalia model in finance and the Wright-Fisher model in population genetics.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative spatial noise is studied. In the spirit of pathwise regularization by noise, we show that a perturbation by a sufficiently irregular continuous path establish wellposedness of such equations, even when the drift and diffusion coefficients are given as generalized functions or distributions. In addition we prove regularity of the averaged field associated to a Levy fractional stable motion, and use this as an example of a perturbation regularizing the multiplicative stochastic heat equation.
We consider a class of semilinear Volterra type stochastic evolution equation driven by multiplicative Gaussian noise. The memory kernel, not necessarily analytic, is such that the deterministic linear equation exhibits a parabolic character. Under appropriate Lipschitz-type and linear growth assumptions on the nonlinear terms we show that the unique mild solution is mean-$p$ Holder continuous with values in an appropriate Sobolev space depending on the kernel and the data. In particular, we obtain pathwise space-time (Sobolev-Holder) regularity of the solution together with a maximal type bound on the spatial Sobolev norm. As one of the main technical tools we establish a smoothing property of the derivative of the deterministic evolution operator family.
By using the technique of the Zvonkins transformation and the classical Khasminkiis time discretization method, we prove the averaging principle for slow-fast stochastic partial differential equations with bounded and H{o}lder continuous drift coefficients. An example is also provided to explain our result.
We consider a stochastic differential equation with additive fractional noise with Hurst parameter $H>1/2$, and a non-linear drift depending on an unknown parameter. We show the Local Asymptotic Normality property (LAN) of this parametric model with rate $sqrt{tau}$ as $taurightarrow infty$, when the solution is observed continuously on the time interval $[0,tau]$. The proof uses ergodic properties of the equation and a Girsanov-type transform. We analyse the particular case of the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and show that the Maximum Likelihood Estimator is asymptotically efficient in the sense of the Minimax Theorem.