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Pathwise Uniqueness of the Solutions of Stochastic Heat Equation with Square-root Coefficient

Probability 2017-02-10 v2

Abstract

White-noise case stochastic heat equation was derived from Dawson-Watanabe superprocess. The pathwise uniqueness of their solutions with non-Lipschitz coefficients has attracted wide attention and in particular, the square-root coefficient case was listed as a long standing open problem in the famous literature (i.e. Perkins \cite{Perkins02} p217.) This short note gives an affirmative answer to this open problem. Our idea is using the φk(x)\varphi_k(x) function constructed by Yamada-Watanable to prove that \beqlb \lab{key} \E_{\mu}| X_{t}(z)-Y_{t}(z) | = \lim_{k \ra \infty} \E_{\mu}|\int_{\r}\frac{1}{\sqrt{\epsilon_k}} \rho_{\epsilon_k}(z-x)[ X_{t}(x)-Y_{t}(x)]dx |=0 . \eeqlb However, 1ϵkρϵk(x)=pϵk(x)\frac{1}{\sqrt{\epsilon_k}} \rho_{\epsilon_k}(x)=p_{\epsilon_k}(x), the stable kernel, is not square-integrable uniformly in kk and we cannot directly use the heat kernel or stable kernel convolution transformation. This forces us to go a new way in which we have used the linear and reciprocal linear properties of φk\varphi_k and φk\varphi^{\prime \prime}_k, respectively, making a ρϵk\rho_{\epsilon_k} convolution transformation first, then, taking expectation and multiplying singularity factor 1ϵk\frac{1}{\sqrt{\epsilon_k}} and finally letting k\rak \ra \infty to estimate and derive (\ref{key}). In this way, we have avoided the non-uniform square integrability of the stochastic integral terms which involve the singularity. The same idea also can be used to prove the pathwise uniqueness of the nonnegative solutions of stochastic heat equation with α\alpha coefficients (1/2α1/2 \leq \alpha) since by a same idea we can construct the φk(x)\varphi_k(x) functions with 1/2α1/2 \leq \alpha.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06055,
  title  = {Pathwise Uniqueness of the Solutions of Stochastic Heat Equation with Square-root Coefficient},
  author = {Hao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06055},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a gap in the proof of the main theorem