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Sharp Non-uniqueness in Law for Stochastic Differential Equations on the Whole Space

Probability 2025-10-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the stochastic differential equation on Rd,d2\mathbb{R}^d,d\geq2: \begin{align*} \dif X_t&=v(t,X_t)\dif t+\sqrt{2} \dif W_t. \end{align*} For any finite collection of initial probability measures {μ0i}1iM\{\mu^i_0\}_{1\leq i\leq M} on Rd\mathbb{R}^d and dp+1r>1\frac{d}{p}+\frac{1}{r}>1, we construct a divergence-free drift field vLtrLpCtLdv\in L_t^rL^p\cap C_tL^{d-} such that the associated SDE admits at least two distinct weak solutions originating from each initial measure μ0i\mu^i_0. This result is sharp in view of the well-known uniqueness of strong solutions for drifts in CtLd+C_tL^{d+}, as established in \cite{KR05}. As a corollary, there exists a measurable set ARdA\subset\mathbb{R}^d with positive Lebesgue measure such that for any xAx\in A, the SDE with drift vv admits at least two weak solutions when with start in xAx\in A. The proof proceeds by constructing two distinct probability solutions to the associated Fokker-Planck equation via a convex integration method adapted to all of Rd\mathbb{R}^d (instead of merely the torus), together with refined heat kernel estimate.

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@article{arxiv.2510.08248,
  title  = {Sharp Non-uniqueness in Law for Stochastic Differential Equations on the Whole Space},
  author = {Huaxiang Lü and Michael Röckner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08248},
  year   = {2025}
}

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