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Smoothness of the density for McKean-Vlasov SDEs with measurable kernel

Probability 2022-08-29 v3

Abstract

Consider the McKean-Vlasov SDE dXt=b(Xt),μtdt+dWt,μt=Law(Xt), dX_t=\langle b(X_t-\cdot),\mu_t\rangle dt+dW_t,\quad \mu_t=\operatorname{Law}(X_t), where WW is the nn-dimensional Brownian motion and b:RdRdb:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}^d is a measurable function. First assuming bLb\in L^\infty, we prove that the law μt\mu_t of XtX_t has a density ptp_t with respect to the Lebesgue measure, which is continuously differentiable with gradient being γ\gamma-H\"older continuous for each γ(0,1)\gamma\in(0,1). Assume further that bCb1b\in \mathcal{C}_b^1, we prove that the density ptp_t is infinitely differentiable. In the regularization by noise perspective, this shows McKean-Vlasov SDEs tend to have a smoother density function than SDEs without density dependence, under the same regularity assumption of the coefficients. We observe similar phenomenon for singular interaction kernels satisfying Krylov's integrability condition, for distributional kernels bB,αb\in B_{\infty,\infty}^\alpha, α(1,0)\alpha\in(-1,0), and for processes driven by an α\alpha-stable noise for α(1,2)\alpha\in(1,2).

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@article{arxiv.2208.02771,
  title  = {Smoothness of the density for McKean-Vlasov SDEs with measurable kernel},
  author = {Yi Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02771},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages. The assumption of Theorem 1.2 is weakened from $b\in \mathcal{C}_b^{1+\alpha}$ to $b\in \mathcal{C}_b^1$