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Sharp pathwise nonuniqueness for additive SDEs

Probability 2026-04-28 v1

Abstract

We construct a family of velocity fields demonstrating the sharpness of the classical Zvonkin--Veretennikov--Davie strong well-posedness by noise regime. We consider stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian noise with drift uu and show that for any α<0\alpha<0, there exists a velocity field uLtCxαu \in L^\infty_t C^\alpha_x that admits a unique weak solution but does not satisfy pathwise uniqueness (and hence has no strong solutions). This contrasts with the case α0\alpha \geq 0, for which the existence of a unique strong solution is guaranteed. The velocity field construction is random, and the proof essentially uses central limit theorem scaling through the Berry--Esseen theorem. We also give natural extensions to non-Brownian driving noises, including nonuniqueness for arbitrary driving noises with certain H\"older regularities and an analogous sharpness of the strong well-posedness by noise regime for fractional Brownian motions.

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@article{arxiv.2604.23883,
  title  = {Sharp pathwise nonuniqueness for additive SDEs},
  author = {Elias Hess-Childs and Keefer Rowan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23883},
  year   = {2026}
}

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33 pages

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