Abstract
We unify and extend the semigroup and the PDE approaches to stochastic maximal regularity of time-dependent semilinear parabolic problems with noise given by a cylindrical Brownian motion. We treat random coefficients that are only progressively measurable in the time variable. For 2m-th order systems with VMO regularity in space, we obtain \(L^{p}(L^{q})\) estimates for all \(p>2\) and \(q\ge 2\), leading to optimal space-time regularity results. For second order systems with continuous coefficients in space, we also include a first order linear term, under a stochastic parabolicity condition, and obtain \(L^{p}(L^{p})\) estimates together with optimal space-time regularity. For linear second order equations in divergence form with random coefficients that are merely measurable in both space and time, we obtain estimates in the tent spaces \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\) of Coifman–Meyer–Stein. This is done in the deterministic case under no extra assumption, and in the stochastic case under the assumption that the coefficients are divergence free.
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1 Introduction
On \(X_0\) (typically \(X_0= L^r({\mathcal {O}};{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) where \(r\in [2, \infty )\)), we consider the following stochastic evolution equation:
where H is a Hilbert space, \(W_{H}\) a cylindrical Brownian motion, \(A:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\) (for some Banach space \(X_{1}\) such that \(X_1\hookrightarrow X_0\), typically a Sobolev space) and \(B:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_{1}, \gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\) are progressively measurable (and satisfy a suitable stochastic parabolic estimate), the functions F and G are suitable nonlinearities, and the initial value \(u_0:\Omega \rightarrow X_{0}\) is \({{\mathcal {F}}}_0\)-measurable (see Sect. 3 for precise definitions). We are interested in maximal \(L^p\)-regularity results for (1.1). This means that we want to investigate well-posedness together with sharp \(L^p\)-regularity estimates given the data F, G and \(u_0\).
Knowing these sharp regularity results for equations such as (1.1), gives a priori estimates to nonlinear equations involving suitable nonlinearities \(F(t,U(t))dt\) and \(G(t,U(t))dW_H(t)\). Well-posedness of such non-linear equations follows easily from these a priori estimates (see e.g. the proofs in [94]).
1.1 Deterministic maximal regularity
In deterministic parabolic PDE, maximal regularity is routinely used without identifying it as a specific property. It is traditionally established by showing that the kernel of the semigroup is a standard Calderón–Zygmund kernel as a function of space and time (see e.g. [78] for a general theory and [64] for a quintessential example). As a property of abstract evolution equations, maximal regularity also has a long history. A turning point, that can be seen as the starting point for the methods used in this paper, was reached in [116]. He obtained a characterisation of maximal regularity in the time-independent case: the deterministic problem
Under the assumption that the underlying space \(X_0\) is UMD, he showed that A has maximal \(L^p\)-regularity if and only if A is R-sectorial.
In the time-dependent case, maximal regularity is far less understood. For abstract evolution equations, it has been established under regularity assumptions in time: continuity when D(A(t)) is constant (see [109] and the references therein), and Hölder regularity when D(A(t)) varies (see [106]). For concrete PDE with very general boundary conditions, it has been established under continuity assumptions on the coefficients in [28] and this was extended to equations with VMO coefficients in time and space in [31]. For equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions one can obtain maximal regularity when the coefficients satisfy a VMO condition in space and are measurable in time, see [32, 33, 72] and references therein.
In Sect. 4 we apply the results of [33] to obtain an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory for higher order systems. In Sect. 5 we consider second order systems and we use a more classical technique: we obtain an \(L^p(L^q)\) in the space independent case first, then for \(p=q\) we use standard localization arguments to reach the space dependent case under minimal regularity assumptions in the spatial variable.
Treating fully rough coefficients (merely bounded and measurable in both space and time) seems to be much more difficult, despite the fact that it was already understood in \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+};L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) in the 1950s. The form method developed by J.L. Lions and his school allows one, in that case, to prove the following variant of maximal regularity:
In Sect. 6, we initiate the development of Lions’s maximal regularity theory in appropriate analogues of Lions’s energy space \(L^{2}(I;W^{1,2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\). These spaces are the tent spaces \(T^{p,2}\) introduced in [22], and extensively used in harmonic analysis of PDE with rough coefficients (see e.g. [5, 6, 48] and the references therein). It was discovered in [10] that Lions’s well posedness theory for time-dependent divergence form parabolic problems with \(L^{\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) coefficients can be extended to tent spaces. Here we start extending the corresponding maximal regularity, both in the deterministic and in the stochastic setting.
For deterministic equations maximal \(L^p\)-regularity can be used to obtain a local existence theory for quasilinear PDEs of parabolic type (see [21, 108, 111]). Moreover, it can sometimes be used to derive global existence for semilinear equations (see [103, 108]). In [65] maximal \(L^p\)-regularity was used to study long time behavior of solutions to quasilinear equations. In [112] it was used to study critical spaces of initial values for which the quasilinear equation is well-posed.
At the moment it remains unclear which of the mentioned theories have a suitable version for stochastic evolution equations. In this paper we develop a maximal \(L^p\)-regularity theory for (1.1) which extends several of existing known theories. In future works we plan to study consequence for concrete nonlinear SPDEs. In the next subsection we explain some of the known results, and then compare them to what is proved in the current paper.
1.2 SPDEs of second order
For second order elliptic operatorsA on \({{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) in non-divergence form, this theory was first developed by Krylov in a series of papers [66,67,68,69] and was surveyed in [70, 71]. These works have been very influential. In particular they have led to e.g. [35, 55,56,57,58, 60, 61, 63, 74] where also the case of smooth domains has been considered, and later to e.g. [18,19,20, 59, 81] where the case of non-smooth domains is investigated. In the above mentioned results one uses \(L^p\)-integrability in space, time and \(\Omega \). In [58, 69] \(p\ne q\) is allowed but only if \(q\le p\).
The above mentioned papers mostly deal with second order operators of scalar equations. In the deterministic setting higher order systems are considered as well (see e.g. [32, 33, 41, 42, 72]). In the stochastic case some \(L^p\)-theory for second order systems has been developed in [62, 90] and an \(L^p(\Omega ;L^2)\)-theory in [36], but in the last mentioned paper the main contribution is a \(C^{\alpha }\)-theory.
1.3 The role of the \(H^\infty \)-calculus assumptions
In [94,95,96] together with van Neerven and Weis, the second author has found another approach to maximal \(L^p\)-regularity of SPDEs, based on McIntosh’s \(H^\infty \)-calculus and square function estimates (see e.g. [23, 47, 53, 54, 85]). This allows one to obtain maximal \(L^p\)-regularity for (1.1) for any sectorial operator A on \(L^q\)-spaces (\(q\ge 2\)) with a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus of angle \(<\pi /2\). There is a vast literature with examples of operators with a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus (see [52, Section 10.8] for a more complete list):
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[29]: 2m-th order elliptic systems with general boundary conditions and smooth coefficients
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[37]: second order elliptic equations with VMO coefficients.
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[38]: second order elliptic systems in divergence form on bounded Lipschitz domains, with \(L^{\infty }\) coefficients and mixed boundary conditions.
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[76]: Stokes operator on a Lipschitz domain
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[79]: Dirichlet Laplace operator on \(C^2\)-domains with weights
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[86]: Hodge Laplacian and Stokes operator with Hodge boundary conditions on very weakly Lipschitz domains
One advantage of the above approach is that it leads to an \(L^p(\Omega \times (0,T);L^q)\)-theory for all \(p\in (2, \infty )\) and \(q\in [2, \infty )\) (where in case \(q=2\), the case \(p=2\) is included), and gives optimal space-time regularity results such as \(U\in L^p(\Omega ;H^{\theta ,p}(0,T;X_{1-\theta }))\) or even \(U\in L^p(\Omega ;C([0,T];X_{1-\frac{1}{p},p}))\), where we used complex and real interpolation space respectively. Such results seem unavailable in the approach of Sect. 1.2.
1.4 New results
Until now the approach based on functional calculus techniques was limited to equations where A was independent of time and \(\Omega \) (or continuous in time see [94]). We will give a simple method to also treat the case where the coefficients of the differential operator A only depend on time and \(\Omega \) in a progressive measurable way. The method is inspired by [73, Lemma 5.1] and [62] where it is used to reduce to the case of second order equations with constant coefficients.
Our paper extends and unifies the theories in [68] and [95] in several ways. Moreover, we introduce weights in time in order to be able to treat rough initial values. In the deterministic setting weight in time have been used for this purpose in [110]. In the stochastic case some result in this direction have been presented in [2], but not in a maximal regularity setting. Furthermore, we initiate a Lions’s type stochastic maximal regularity theory outside of Hilbert spaces, based on the \(L^2\) theory (see [75, 82, 83, 102]), [10, 114], and [9]. Our main abstract results can be found in Theorems 3.9 and 3.15 below. Our result in the Lions’s setting is Theorem 6.2.
Additionally we are able to give an abstract formulation of the stochastic parabolicity condition for A and B (see Sect. 3.5). It coincides with the classical one if A is a scalar second order operator on \({{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) and B consists of first order operators.
In the applications of our abstract results we will only consider equations on the full space \({{\mathbb {R}}}^d\), but in principle other situations can be considered as well. However, in order to include an operator B which satisfies an optimal abstract stochastic parabolicity condition, we require certain special group generation structure.
The concrete SPDEs we consider are
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2m-th order elliptic systems in non-divergence form with coefficients which are only progressively measurable (see Theorem 4.5). The main novelties are that, in space, the coefficients are assumed to be VMO, and we are able to give an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory for all \(p\in (2, \infty )\) and \(q\in [2, \infty )\) (\(p=q=2\) is allowed as well).
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Second order elliptic systems in non-divergence form with coefficients which are only progressively measurable, with a diffusion coefficient that satisfies an optimal stochastic parabolicity condition (see Theorem 5.3). When the coefficients are independent of space we give an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory. Moreover, we give an \(L^p(L^p)\)-theory if the coefficients are continuous in space.
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Second order divergence form equations with coefficients which are only progressively measurable in both the time and the space variables, but satisfy the structural condition of being divergence free. We treat this problem in suitable tent spaces, and in the model case where \(B=0\), \(u_{0}=0\).
A major advantage of our approach to the \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory, is that we can obtain the same space-time regularity results as in Sect. 1.3. This seems completely new in the case of measurable dependence on \((t,\omega )\). Our approach to stochastic maximal regularity in the Lions sense is nowhere as developed, but gives, to the best of our knowledge, the first results (outside of Hilbert spaces) where no regularity in either space and time is assumed.
1.5 Other forms of maximal regularity
To end this introduction let us mention several other type of maximal \(L^p\)-regularity results. In [13, 25] maximal \(L^p\)-regularity for any analytic semigroup was established in the real interpolation scale. In [97] maximal regularity was obtained using \(\gamma \)-spaces. In Banach function spaces variations of the latter have been obtained in [3].
1.5.1 Notation
We write \(A \lesssim _p B\) whenever \(A \le C_p B\) where \(C_p\) is a constant which depends on the parameter p. Similarly, we write \(A\eqsim _p B\) if \(A\lesssim _p B\) and \(B\lesssim _p A\). Moreover, C is a constant which can vary from line to line.
2 Preliminaries
2.1 Measurability
Let \((S,\Sigma , \mu )\) be a measure space. A function \(f:S\rightarrow X\) is called strongly measurable if it can be approximated by \(\mu \)-simple functions a.e. An operator valued function \(f:S\rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X,Y)\) is called X-strongly measurable if for every \(x\in X\), \(s\mapsto f(s) x\) is strongly measurable.
Let \((\Omega , {{\mathbb {P}}}, {{\mathcal {A}}})\) be a probability space with filtration \(({{\mathcal {F}}}_t)_{t\ge 0}\). A process \(\phi :{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow X\) is called progressively measurable if for every fixed \(T\ge 0\), \(\phi \) restricted to \([0,T]\times \Omega \) is strongly \({{\mathcal {B}}}([0,T])\times {{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable
An operator valued process \(\phi :{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X,Y)\) will be called X-strongly progressively measurable if for every \(x\in X\), \(\phi x\) is progressively measurable.
Let \(\bigtriangleup :=\{(s,t): 0\le s\le t<\infty \}\) and \(\bigtriangleup _T = \bigtriangleup \cap [0,T]^2\). Let \({{\mathcal {B}}}_T\) denotes the Borel \(\sigma \)-algebra on \(\bigtriangleup _T\). A two-parameter process \(\phi :\bigtriangleup \times \Omega \rightarrow X\) will be called progressively measurable if for every fixed \(T\ge 0\), \(\phi \) restricted to \(\bigtriangleup _T\times \Omega \) is strongly \({{\mathcal {B}}}_T\times {{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable.
2.2 Functional calculus
For \(\sigma \in (0,\pi )\) let \(\Sigma _{\sigma } = \{z\in {{\mathbb {C}}}: |\arg (z)|<\sigma \}\). A closed and densely defined operator (A, D(A)) on a Banach space X is called sectorial of type\((M,\sigma )\in {{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times (0,\pi )\) if A is injective, has dense range, \(\sigma (A)\subseteq \overline{\Sigma _{\sigma }}\) and
A closed and densely defined operator (A, D(A)) on a Banach space X is called sectorial of type \((M,w,\sigma )\in {{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times {{\mathbb {R}}}\times (0,\pi )\) if \(A+w\) is sectorial of type \((M, \sigma )\).
Let \(H^\infty (\Sigma _{\varphi })\) denote the space of all bounded holomorphic functions \(f:\Sigma _{\varphi }\rightarrow {{\mathbb {C}}}\) and let \(\Vert f\Vert _{H^\infty (\Sigma _{\varphi })} = \sup _{z\in \Sigma _{\varphi }} |f(z)|\). Let \(H^\infty _0(\Sigma _{\varphi })\subseteq H^\infty (\Sigma _{\varphi })\) be the set of all f for which there exists an \(\varepsilon >0\) and \(C>0\) such that \(|f(z)|\le C \frac{|z|^{\varepsilon }}{1+|z|^{2\varepsilon }}\).
For an operator A which is sectorial of type \((M,\sigma )\), \(\sigma<\nu <\varphi \), and \(f\in H^\infty _0(\Sigma _{\varphi })\) define
where the orientation is such that \(\sigma (A)\) is on the right side of the integration path. The operator A is said to have a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus of angle \(\varphi \) if there exists a constant C such that for all \(f\in H^\infty _0(\Sigma _{\varphi })\)
For details on the \(H^\infty \)-functional calculus we refer the reader to [47] and [52]. A list of examples has been given in the introduction.
For an interpolation couple \((X_0,X_1)\) let
denote the complex and real interpolation spaces at \(\theta \in (0,1)\) and \(p\in [1, \infty ]\), respectively.
2.3 Function spaces
Let \(S\subseteq {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) be open. For a weight function \(w:{{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow (0,\infty )\) which is integrable on bounded subset of \({{\mathbb {R}}}^d\), \(p \in [1,\infty )\), and X a Banach space, we work with the Bochner spaces \(L^{p}(S,w;X)\) with norm defined by
We also use the corresponding Sobolev spaces defined by
If \(q<p\), and \(w_{\alpha }(x) = |x|^{\alpha }\) with \(\alpha /d <\frac{p}{q}-1\), note that, by Hölder inequality \(L^{p}(S,w_{\alpha };X)\hookrightarrow L^q(S;X)\).
In several cases the class of weight we will consider is the class of \(A_p\)-weights \(w:{{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow (0,\infty )\). Recall that \(w\in A_p\) if and only if the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function is bounded on \(L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d,w)\).
For \(p\in (1, \infty )\) and an \(A_p\)-weight w let the Bessel potential spaces \(H^{s,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d,w;X)\) be defined as the space of all \(f\in {\mathcal {S}}'({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;X):={{\mathcal {L}}}({\mathcal {S}}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d),X)\) for which \({{\mathcal {F}}}^{-1} [(1+|\cdot |^2)^{s/2} \widehat{f} \in L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d,w;X)\). Here \({{\mathcal {F}}}\) denotes the Fourier transform. Then \(H^{s,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d,w;X)\) is a Banach space when equipped with the norm
The following is a well known consequence of Fourier multiplier theory.
Lemma 2.1
Let X be a UMD Banach space, \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\), \(r>0\) and \(k\in {{\mathbb {N}}}\). Then the following give equivalent norms on \(H^{s,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;X)\):
The spaces \(H^{s,p}\) will also be needed on bounded open intervals I. For a \(I\subseteq {{\mathbb {R}}}\), \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(w\in A_p\), \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\) the space \(H^{s,p}(I,w;X)\) is defined as all restriction \(f|_{I}\) where \(f\in H^{s,p}(I,w;X)\). This is a Banach space when equipped with the norm
Either by repeating the proof of Lemma 2.1 or by reducing to it by applying a bounded extension operator from \(H^{\theta ,p}(I,w;Y)\rightarrow H^{\theta ,p}({{\mathbb {R}}},w;Y)\) and Fubini, we obtain the following norm equivalence.
Lemma 2.2
Let X be a UMD space, \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\), \(r>0\), \(k\in {{\mathbb {N}}}\), and let \(I\subseteq {{\mathbb {R}}}\) be an open interval. Let \(\theta \in (0,1)\) and \(w\in A_p\). Then the following two norms give equivalent norms on \(H^{\theta , p}(I;H^{s,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;X))\):
The next result follows from [88, Proposition 7.4].
Proposition 2.3
Let \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in [0,p-1)\), \(T\in (0,\infty ]\) and set \(I=(0,T)\). For all \(f\in H^{\theta ,p}(I,t^{\alpha };X)\) we have
Proposition 2.4
Let \(X_0, X_1\) be UMD spaces and assume \((X_0, X_1)\) is an interpolation couple. Let \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(w\in A_p\), and let \(I\subseteq {{\mathbb {R}}}\) be an open interval. If \(s_0<s_1\), \(\theta \in (0,1)\) and \(s = (1-\theta )s_0 + \theta s_1\), then the following assertions hold:
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\(W^{1,p}(I,w;X_0) = H^{1,p}(I,w;X_0)\).
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\([H^{s_0, p}(I,w;X_0), H^{s_1, p}(I,w;X_1)]_{\theta } = H^{s,p}(I,w;[X_0, X_1]_{\theta })\).
In particular, there exists a constant C such that for any \(f\in H^{s_1, p}(I,w;X_0\cap X_1)\),
Proof
(1): This can be proved as in [80, Proposition 5.5] by using a suitable extension operator and a suitable extension of \(w|_{I}\) to a weight on \({{\mathbb {R}}}\).
(2): For \(I = {{\mathbb {R}}}\), this follows from [79, Theorem 3.18]. The general case follows from an extension argument as in [80, Proposition 5.6]. \(\square \)
The following result follows from [89, Theorem 1.1] and standard arguments (see [1] for details). Knowing the optimal trace space is essential in the proof of Theorem 3.15.
Proposition 2.5
(Trace embedding) Let \(X_0\) be UMD Banach spaces and A a sectorial operator on \(X_0\) and \(0\in \rho (A)\) with \(D(A) = X_1\). Let \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in [0, p-1)\), \(\beta \in (0,1)\) and \(T\in (0,\infty ]\). Set \(w_{\alpha }(t) = t^{\alpha }\), \(I = (0,T)\). Let
denote the complex and real interpolation spaces for \(\theta \in (0,1)\). Then
In the one-dimensional case we will also need the much simpler fractional Sobolev–Sobolewski spaces on \(I=(0,T)\) with \(T\in (0,\infty ]\). For \(\beta \in (0,1)\), \(p\in (1, \infty )\) and a weight \(w\in A_p\) we define the fractional Sobolev–Sobolewski space \(W^{\beta ,p}(I,w;X)\) as the space of all functions \(\phi \in L^p(I,w;X)\) for which
This space is a Banach space when equipped with the norm \(\Vert \phi \Vert _{W^{\beta ,p}(I,w;X)} = [\phi ]_{W^{\beta ,p}(I,w;X)} + \Vert \phi \Vert _{L^p(I,w;X)}\). In the case \(w_{\alpha }(t) = t^{\alpha }\) with \(\alpha \in [0,p-1)\) it is well-known that (see [46] and [87, Proposition 1.1.13])
For general \(A_p\)-weights such a characterization seems only possible if (2.1) is replaced by a more complicated expression (see [89, Proposition 2.3 with \(p=q\)] for the case \(I = {{\mathbb {R}}}\)).
Note that, by (2.2), Proposition 2.4 and general properties of real and complex interpolation [115, Theorems 1.3.3(e) and 1.10.3], we have
for any UMD space X, \(p\in (1, \infty )\) and \(0<\theta<\beta <1\).
2.4 Stochastic integration
Let \(L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^q(I;X))\) denote the space of progressively measurable processes in \(L^p(\Omega ; L^q(I;X))\).
The Itô integral of an \({{\mathcal {F}}}\)-adapted finite rank step process in \(\gamma (H,X)\), with respect to an \({{\mathcal {F}}}\)-cylindrical Brownian motion \(W_H\), is defined by
for \(N \in {{\mathbb {N}}}\), \(0\le t_{1}<t_{2}<\cdots <t_{N+1}\), and for all \(k=1,\ldots ,N\), \(F_{k}\in {{\mathcal {F}}}_{t_{k}}\), \(h_{k}\in H\), \(x_{k}\in X\). The following version of Itô’s isomorphism holds for such processes (see [93]):
Theorem 2.6
Let X be a UMD Banach space and let G be an \({{\mathcal {F}}}\)-adapted finite rank step process in \(\gamma (H,X)\). For all \(p\in (1,\infty )\) one has the two-sided estimate
with implicit constants depending only on p and (the UMD constant of) X.
The class of UMD Banach spaces includes all Hilbert spaces, and all \(L^q({\mathcal {O}};G)\) spaces for \(q \in (1,\infty )\), and G another UMD space. It is stable under isomorphism of Banach spaces, and included in the class of reflexive Banach spaces. Closed subspaces, quotients, and duals of UMD spaces are UMD. For more information on UMD spaces see [51] or [17].
Theorem 2.6 allows one to extend the stochastic integral, by density, to the closed linear span in \(L^p(\Omega ;\gamma (L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;H),X))\) of all \({{\mathcal {F}}}\)-adapted finite rank step processes in \(\gamma (H,X)\)) (see [93]). We denote this closed linear span by \(L^p _{{\mathcal {F}}} (\Omega ;\gamma (L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;H),X))\). Moreover, this set coincides with the progressively measurable processes in \(L^p(\Omega ;\gamma (L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;H),X))\).
If the UMD Banach space X has type 2 (and thus martingale type 2), then one has a continuous embedding \( L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;\gamma (H,X))\hookrightarrow \gamma (L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;H),X) \) (see [91, 113]). See [52] or [30, 104, 105] for a presentation of the notions of type and martingale type.
In such a Banach space, (2.4) implies that
where C depends on X and p. The stochastic integral thus uniquely extends to \(L_{{\mathcal {F}}}^p(\Omega ;L^2({{\mathbb {R}}}_+;\gamma (H,X)))\) (as it does in [14, 100]).
Note, however, that the sharp version of Itô’s isomorphism given in Theorem 2.6 is critical to prove stochastic maximal regularity, even in time-independent situations. The weaker estimate (2.5) (where the right hand side would typically be \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+};L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) instead of \(L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}))\)) does not suffice for this purpose (see [95]).
We end this subsection with a simple lemma which is applied several times. It will be stated for weights in the so-called \(A_q\) class in dimension one. In the unweighted case the lemma is simple and well-known. Note that \(w(t) = |t|^{\alpha }\) is in \(A_q\) if and only if \(\alpha \in (-1, q-1)\).
Lemma 2.7
Assume X is a UMD space with type 2. Let \(p\in [2, \infty )\), and \(w\in A_{\frac{p}{2}}\) (if \(p=2\), then we take \(w=1\)), \(\theta \in (0,\frac{1}{2})\), and \(T\in (0,\infty )\) and set \(I = (0,T)\). Assume
where \(f\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w;X))\) and \(g\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w;\gamma (H,X)))\). Then \(U\in L^p(\Omega ;C({\overline{I}};X))\) and there exists a constant \(C = C(p,w,T,X,\theta )\) which is increasing in T and such that
Proof
The definition of a strong solution and the properties of the integrals immediately give the existence of a continuous modification, and by (2.5), we find
where in the last step we applied Hölder’s inequality.
To prove the estimate concerning the fractional regularity note that
and
which gives the required estimates after taking \(L^p(\Omega )\)-norms.
Let \(I(g) = \int _0^\cdot g d W_H\). By (2.5) and Hölder inequality the stochastic integral can be estimated, for \(t \in I\), by
Taking \(L^p((0,T),w)\) norms, part of the required estimate follows. For the difference norm part, first consider \(p\in (2, \infty )\). Then, for \(s \in I\), and M denoting the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function,
Therefore, from (2.1) we obtain
where we used \(\theta \in (0,\frac{1}{2})\) and applied the boundedness of the maximal function in \(L^{p/2}({{\mathbb {R}}},w)\) (see [45, Theorem 9.1.9]).
If \(p=2\), then \(w=1\) and we can write (using again that \(\theta <\frac{1}{2}\))
\(\square \)
Remark 2.8
Fractional regularity of stochastic integrals in the vector-valued setting is considered in many previous papers (see [14, 101, 107] and references therein). In particular, the unweighted case of Lemma 2.7 can be found in [107, Corollary 4.9] where it is a consequence of a regularity result on arbitrary UMD spaces. The weighted case appears to be new. Using Rubio de Francia extrapolation techniques one can extend Lemma 2.7 to a large class of Banach functions spaces E(I, w; X) instead of \(L^p(I,w;X)\) (see [24]).
3 Maximal regularity for stochastic evolution equations
In this section we consider the semilinear stochastic evolution equation
Here A(t) and B(t) are linear operators which are \((t,\omega )\)-dependent. The functions F and G are nonlinear perturbations.
In Sects. 3.1 and 3.2 we introduce the definitions of maximal \(L^p\)-regularity for deterministic equations and stochastic equations respectively. This extends well-known notions to the \((t,\omega )\)-dependent setting. Moreover, we allow weights in time. In Sect. 3.3 we present a way to reduce the problem with time-dependent operators to the time-independent setting. In Sect. 3.4 we show that if one has maximal \(L^p\)-regularity, then this implies well-posedness of semilinear initial value problems. Finally in Sect. 3.5 we explain a setting in which one can reduce to the case \(B=0\).
3.1 The deterministic case
Consider the following hypotheses.
Assumption 3.1
Let \(X_0\) and \(X_1\) be Banach spaces such that \(X_1\hookrightarrow X_0\) is dense. Let \(X_{\theta } = [X_0, X_1]_{\theta }\) and \(X_{\theta ,p} = (X_0, X_1)_{\theta ,p}\) denote the complex and real interpolation spaces at \(\theta \in (0,1)\) and \(p\in [1, \infty ]\), respectively.
For \(f\in L^1(I;X_0)\) with \(I = (0,T)\) and \(T\in (0,\infty ]\) we consider:
We say that u is a strong solution of (3.2) if for any finite interval \(J\subseteq I\) we have \(u\in L^1(J;X_1)\) and
Note that this identity yields that \(u\in W^{1,1}(J;X_0)\) and \(u\in C({\overline{J}};X_0)\) for bounded \(J\subseteq I\).
Definition 3.2
(Deterministic maximal regularity) Let Assumption 3.1 be satisfied and assume that \(A:[s,\infty )\rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\) is strongly measurable and \(\sup _{t\in {{\mathbb {R}}}}\Vert A(t)\Vert _{{{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)}<\infty \). Let \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in (-1,p-1)\), \(T\in (0,\infty ]\), and set \(I = (0,T)\). We say that \(A\in \mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) if for all \(f\in L^p(I,w_{\alpha };X_0)\), there exists a strong solution
of (3.2) and
In (3.3) we use the continuous version of \(u:{\overline{I}}\rightarrow X_0\). By Proposition 2.5 for \(\alpha \in [0,p-1)\) we have
If \(\alpha \in (-1, 0)\) the first assertion does not hold, but the second one holds on [0, T] if \(T<\infty \).
Remark 3.3
Although we do allow \(T=\infty \) in the above definition, most result will be formulated for \(T\in (0,\infty )\) as this is often simpler and enough for applications to PDEs.
Note that \(A\in \mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) implies that the solution u is unique (use (3.4)). Furthermore, it implies unique solvability of (3.2) on subintervals \(J = (a,b)\subseteq I\). In particular, \(\mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha , T)\) implies \(\mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha , t)\) for all \(t\in (0,T]\).
3.2 Hypothesis on A and B and the definition of SMR
Consider the following hypotheses.
Assumption 3.4
Let H be a separable Hilbert space. Assume \(X_0\) and \(X_1\) are UMD spaces with type 2. Let \(A:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\) be strongly progressively measurable and
Let \(B:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, {{\mathcal {L}}}(H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\) be such that for all \(x\in X_1\) and \(h\in H\), (Bx)h is strongly progressively measurable and assume there is a constant C such that
For \(f\in L^1(I;X_0)\) and \(g\in L^2(I;\gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\) with \(I = (0,T)\) and \(T\in (0,\infty ]\) we consider:
We say that U is a strong solution of (3.1) if for any finite interval \(J\subseteq I\) we have \(U \in L^0_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^2(J;\gamma (H,X_{1})))\) and almost surely for all \(t\in I\),
The above stochastic integrals are well-defined by (2.5). Identity (3.6) yields that U has paths in \(C({\overline{J}};X_0)\) for bounded \(J\subseteq I\) (see Lemma 2.7).
Definition 3.5
(Stochastic maximal regularity) Suppose Assumptions 3.1 and 3.4 hold. Let \(p\in [2, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in (-1,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (\(\alpha = 0\) is included if \(p=2\)), \(T\in (0,\infty ]\), and set \(I = (0,T)\). We say that \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) if for all \(f\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };X_0)\) all \(g\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };\gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\), there exists a strong solution
of (3.5) and for each \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\) there is a constant \(C_{\theta }\) such that
In the case \(B = 0\) we write \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) instead of \((A,0)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\)
In the above we use a pathwise continuous version of \(U:\Omega \times {\overline{I}}\rightarrow X_0\). By Proposition 2.5 if \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) we even have
If \(\alpha \in (-1, 0)\) the first assertion does not hold, but the second one holds on [0, T] if \(T<\infty \).
A variant of Remark 3.3 holds for \(\mathrm{SMR}\). In particular, any of the estimates (3.7) implies uniqueness.
Remark 3.6
Unlike in the deterministic case the stochastic case does not allow for an optimal endpoint \(H^{\frac{1}{2}, p}\), because already a standard Brownian motion does not have paths in this space a.s. Therefore, we need to quantify over \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\) in the above definition.
In the case \(-A\) is time-independent and generates an analytic semigroup, some different type of end-point results on the time-regularity in terms of Besov spaces have been obtained in [101] which even include regularity at exponent \(\frac{1}{2}\) which is known to be the optimal regularity of a standard Brownian motion.
In the time-independent case, many properties of \(\mathrm{DMR}\) and \(\mathrm{SMR}\) are known such as independence of p, \(\alpha \) and T. For details we refer to [34, 110] for the deterministic case and [1, 84] for the stochastic case.
In the next two results we collect sufficient conditions for \(\mathrm{DMR}\) and \(\mathrm{SMR}\) in the time independent case. The first result follows from [53, Theorem 5.3 and (3.6)] and [116, Theorem 4.2] (in the latter \(\mathrm{DMR}\) was characterized in terms of R-boundedness).
Proposition 3.7
Suppose Assumption 3.1 is satisfied and assume \(X_0\) is a UMD space. Assume \(A\in {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\).
If A has a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus of angle \(<\pi /2\) and \(0\in \rho (A)\), then \(A\in \mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha , T)\) for all \(p\in (1, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in (-1,p-1)\) and \(T\in (0,\infty ]\).
In the time-independent setting the next result follows from [95] for \(\alpha = 0\) (also see [96, 98]). The case \(\alpha \ne 0\) was obtained in [1] by a perturbation argument.
Proposition 3.8
Suppose Assumption 3.1 is satisfied. Assume \(A\in {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\). Let \(X_0\) be isomorphic to a 2-convex Banach function space such that \((X^{1/2}_0)^*\) has the Hardy–Littlewood property (e.g. \(X_0 = L^q({\mathcal {O}};\ell ^2)\), where and \(q\in [2, \infty )\)).
If A has a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus of angle \(<\pi /2\) and \(0\in \rho (A)\), then \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha , T)\) for all \(p\in (2, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in (-1,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) and \(T\in (0,\infty ]\). Moreover, if \(X_0\) is a Hilbert space, then the result in the case \((p,\alpha ) = (2,0)\) holds as well.
3.3 \(\mathrm{SMR}\) for time-dependent problems
The next result is a useful tool to derive \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}\) from \(A\in \mathrm{DMR}\) and \(A_0\in \mathrm{SMR}\) for a certain reference operator \(A_0\) which one is free to choose. It extends [73, Lemma 5.1] and [62] where the case with \(A_0 = -\Delta \) on \(X_0 = L^p\) with \(\alpha =0\) was considered and where A(t) was a second order operator.
Theorem 3.9
Suppose Assumptions 3.1 and 3.4 hold. Let \(p\in [2, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in (-1,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (\(\alpha =0\) if \(p=2\) is allowed as well) and \(T\in (0,\infty )\).
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(i)
There exists a sectorial operator \(-A_0\) with \(D(A_0) = X_1\), and \(X_{\frac{1}{2}} = D((\lambda +A_0)^{1/2})\) such that \(A_0\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\).
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(ii)
Assume that there is a \(C>0\) such that for all \(\omega \in \Omega \), \(A(\cdot ,\omega )\in \mathrm{DMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) and (3.4) holds with constant C.
Then \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha , T)\).
Proof
In the proof we write
which we turn into a Banach space by using the sum norm.
Step 1: Progressive measurability and estimates for the deterministic part
Consider the mapping \(\Lambda _T:\Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(\mathrm{MR}_T,L^p(0,T,w_{\alpha };X_0))\) given by \(\Lambda _T(\omega ) = d/dt + A(\cdot ,\omega )\). Then \(\Lambda _T\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable and each \(\Lambda _T(\omega )\) is invertible. It is well-known that its inverse mapping \(\omega \mapsto \Lambda _T(\omega )^{-1}\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable as well (see [99]). For convenience we include a short argument for this special case. Fix \(\omega _0\in \Omega \). Now \(\omega \mapsto \Lambda _T(\omega )\Lambda _T(\omega _0)^{-1}\in {{\mathcal {L}}}(\mathrm{MR}_T)\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable and takes values in the invertible operators. Since taking inverses is a continuous mapping on the open set of invertible mappings it follows that \(\omega \mapsto \Lambda _T(\omega _{0})\Lambda _T(\omega )^{-1}\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable as well. Clearly, the above holds with T replaced by any \(t\in (0,T]\) as well.
Now for \(f\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I;X_0)\), consider the problem
The solution is given by \(u(\cdot ,\omega ) = \Lambda _T(\omega )^{-1} f(\cdot , \omega )\) and by (ii)
Moreover, by the previous observations u is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_T\)-measurable (as an \(\mathrm{MR}_T\)-valued mapping) and we can take \(L^p(\Omega )\)-norms in the previous estimate to obtain
In the same way one can see that u is progressively measurable. Indeed, for \(t\in (0,T)\)\(f|_{[0,t]}\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_t\times {{\mathcal {B}}}([0,t])\)-measurable and hence \(u|_{[0,t]} = \Lambda _t^{-1}f|_{[0,t]}\) is strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_t\)-measurable. By Proposition 2.4, we also have that \(u \in SMR_{T}\) and that, for all \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\), \(\Vert U\Vert _{SMR_{T,\theta }} \lesssim \Vert f\Vert _{L^p(\Omega \times (0,T),w_{\alpha };X_0)}.\)
Step 2: Main step
It remains to prove existence and estimates in the space \(\mathrm{SMR}_{T} :=\bigcap _{\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})} \mathrm{SMR}_{T,\theta }\), where
Let \(f\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };X_0)\) and \(g\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };\gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\). In order to prove \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) consider
We will build U from the solutions of two sub-problems.
Since \(A_0\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) we can find \(V_1\in \mathrm{SMR}_T\) such that
and one has the estimate, for each \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\),
By Step 1 we can find \(V_2\in \mathrm{SMR}_T\) such that
Now it is straightforward to check that \(U = V_1+V_2\) is a solution to (3.9) and combining the estimates for \(V_1\) and \(V_2\) we obtain \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha , T)\). \(\square \)
The solvability of (3.5) with \(B\ne 0\) can be a delicate matter. In particular it typically requires a stochastic parabolicity condition involving A and B. However, there are several situations where one can prove an a priori estimate and where for a simple related problem one can prove existence and uniqueness of a solution in \(L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };X_1))\). These are the ingredients to apply the method of continuity (see [43, Theorem 5.2]) to obtain existence and uniqueness of (3.5). This is a well-known method, which we present in an abstract setting in the proposition below. For convenience let
where \(I = (0,T)\) with \(T\in (0,\infty )\). The spaces \(Z_{\theta }\) are the spaces in which the data is chosen. The spaces \(E_{\theta }\) are the spaces in which the solution lives.
Proposition 3.10
(Method of continuity) Suppose Assumptions 3.1 and 3.4 hold. Let \(p\in [2, \infty )\), \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\), \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\), and \(T\in (0,\infty )\), and set \(I = (0,T)\). Let \({\widetilde{A}}\in {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, X_0)\) be given. For \(\lambda \in [0,1]\) let
Consider the problem \(U(0) = 0\) and
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(i)
Assume that there is a constant C such that, for all \(\lambda \in [0,1]\), all \(f\in Z_0\), and all \(g\in Z_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\gamma }\), any strong solution to (3.11) \(U\in E_{\theta }\cap E_{0}\) satisfies
$$\begin{aligned} \Vert U\Vert _{E_{\theta }}+\Vert U\Vert _{E_{0}}\le C( \Vert f\Vert _{Z_0} + \Vert g\Vert _{Z_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\gamma }}). \end{aligned}$$(3.12) -
(ii)
Assume that, for all \(f\in Z_0\) and all \(g\in Z_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\gamma }\), there exists a strong solution \(U\in E_{\theta } \cap E_{0}\) to (3.11) with \(\lambda = 0\).
Then for all \(\lambda \in [0,1]\), all \(f\in Z_0\), and all \(g\in Z_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\gamma }\), there exists a unique strong solution \(U\in E_{\theta } \cap E_{0}\) of (3.11), and it satisfies the estimate (3.12).
In particular, the above result implies that if \(({\widetilde{A}},0)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) and (i) holds for all \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\), then \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\). Note that in (i) we only assume that, as soon as a solution \(U\in E_{\theta }\cap E_0\) to (3.11) exists, then (3.12) holds.
Proof
The proof is a generalization of a standard method (see [68, p. 218]). We include the details for completeness. Note that uniqueness follows from (3.12). Let \(\Lambda \subseteq [0,1]\) be the set of all points \(\lambda \) such that for all \(f\in Z_0\) and \(g\in Z_{\frac{1}{2}}^{\gamma }\) (3.11) has a strong solution \(U\in E_{\theta }\). It suffices to prove \(1\in \Lambda \). We claim that there exists an \(\varepsilon >0\) such that for every \(\lambda _0\in \Lambda \), \([\lambda _0-\varepsilon , \lambda _0+\varepsilon ]\cap [0,1]\subseteq \Lambda \). Clearly, proving the claim would finish the proof.
To prove the claim let \(\lambda _0 \in \Lambda \). Fix \(\lambda \in [\lambda _0-\varepsilon , \lambda _0+\varepsilon ]\cap [0,1]\), where \(\varepsilon >0\) is fixed for the moment. For \(V\in E_{\theta }\), let \(U\in E_{\theta }\cap E_{0}\) be the solution to
In this case we write \(L_{\lambda }(V) = U\). It is enough show that \(L_{\lambda }:E_{\theta }\cap E_{0} \rightarrow FF_{\theta }\cap E_{0}\) is a strict contraction. Indeed, then by the Banach fixed point theorem there exists a unique \(U\in E_{\theta }\cap E_{0}\) such that \(L_{\lambda }(U) = U\) and this clearly implies that U is a strong solution of (3.11). To prove that L is a strict contraction, let us note that for \(V_1, V_2\in E_{\theta }\cap E_{0}\) and \(V = V_1-V_2\), the process \(U = L_{\lambda }(V_1) - L_{\lambda }(V_2)\) is a strong solution to
Therefore, by (3.12)
where \({\widetilde{C}} = C (C_A +\Vert {\widetilde{A}}\Vert +C_B)\). Here we used
Therefore, letting \(\varepsilon = \frac{1}{2C (C_A +\Vert {\widetilde{A}}\Vert +C_B)}\) we see that \(L_{\lambda }\) is a strict contraction. \(\square \)
3.4 Semilinear equations
In this section we show that our maximal regularity set-up allows for simple perturbation arguments in order to include nonzero initial values and nonlinear functions F and G as in (3.1) on a fixed time interval \(I = (0,T)\) as soon as one knows that \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\). The results extend [94, Theorems 4.5 and 5.6] to a setting where we only assume measurability in time and where we can take rough initial values.
Consider the following conditions on A:
Assumption 3.11
Suppose Assumptions 3.1 and 3.4 hold. Assume \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) and let \(K_{\mathrm{det}}\) and \(K_{\mathrm{st}}\) be such that the strong solution to (3.5) satisfies
Note that the constants \(K_{\mathrm{det}}\) and \(K_{\mathrm{st}}\) exists by the condition \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\). We introduce them in order to have more explicit bounds below.
Consider the following conditions on F and G.
Assumption 3.12
The function \(F:[0,T]\times \Omega \times X_1\rightarrow X_0\) is strongly progressively measurable, \(F(\cdot , \cdot ,0)\in L^p(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha });X_0)\), and there exist \(L_{F}\) and \({{\widetilde{L}}}_{F}\) such that for all \(t\in [0,T]\), \(\omega \in \Omega \), and \(x,y\in X_1\),
Assumption 3.13
The function \(G:[0,T]\times \Omega \times X_1\rightarrow \gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}})\) is strongly progressive measurable, \(G(\cdot , \cdot , 0)\in L^p(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha });\gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\) and there exist \(L_{G}\), \({{\widetilde{L}}}_{G}\) such that for all \(t\in [0,T]\), \(\omega \in \Omega \), and \(x,y\in X_1\),
Definition 3.14
Suppose Assumptions 3.1, 3.4, 3.12 and 3.13 are satisfied. Let \(u_0:\Omega \rightarrow X_0\) be strongly \({{\mathcal {F}}}_0\)-measurable. A process \(U: [0,T]\times \Omega \rightarrow X_0\) is called a strong solution of (3.1) if it is strongly progressively measurable, and
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(i)
almost surely, \(U\in L^2(0,T;X_1)\);
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(ii)
almost surely for all \(t\in [0,T]\), the following identity holds in \(X_0\):
$$\begin{aligned} U(t) + \int _0^t A(s) U(s) \, ds&= u_0 + \int _0^t F(s,U(s)) \, ds \\&\quad + \int _0^t \Big (B(s)U(s) +G(s,U(s))\Big ) \, d W_H(s). \end{aligned}$$
It is straightforward to check that all integrals are well-defined by the assumptions.
Now we state the main result of this subsection:
Theorem 3.15
Let \(p\in [2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha \in [0, \frac{p}{2}-1)\) (\(\alpha =0\) is allowed if \(p=2\)) and \(T\in (0,\infty )\). Set \(\delta = 1-\frac{\alpha +1}{p}\) and \(I = (0,T)\). Consider the following conditions:
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(1)
Suppose Assumptions 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 hold, and \(u_0\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0;X_{\delta ,p})\).
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(2)
Assume the Lipschitz constants \(L_F\) and \(L_G\) satisfy
$$\begin{aligned} K_{\mathrm{det}} L_F + K_{\mathrm{st}} L_G <1. \end{aligned}$$ -
(3)
There exists a sectorial operator \(A_0\) on \(X_0\) with \(D(A_0)=X_1\) and angle \(<\pi /2\).
Then the following assertions hold:
Problem (3.1) has a unique strong solution \(U\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };X_1))\). Moreover, there exist constants \(C, C_{\varepsilon }, C_{\varepsilon ,\theta }\) depending on \(X_0, X_1, p, \alpha , T,A,B,A_0, K_{\mathrm{det}}, K_{\mathrm{st}}\) and the Lipschitz constants of f and g such that
where
Furthermore, if \(U^{1}, U^2\) are the strong solution of (3.1) with initial value \(u_0^1,u_0^2\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0;X_{\delta ,p})\) respectively, then each of the above estimates holds with U replaced by \(U^1-U^2\), and \(K_{u_0,F,G}\) replaced by \(K_{u_0^1-u_0^2,F,G}\) on the right-hand side.
Proof
In the proof we use a variation of the arguments in [94, Theorems 4.5]. Let us assume, without loss of generality that \(L_{F},L_{G} \ne 0\), and that \(K_{\mathrm{det}} L_F + K_{\mathrm{st}} L_G = 1-\nu \) for some \(\nu \in (0,1)\).
Step 0: Reduction to \(u_0 = 0\). We consider \(\Phi : t \mapsto e^{-tA_0} u_0\). Since \(u_{0} \in X_{\delta ,p}\), we have, by [115, 1.14.5], that
Moreover, \(\Phi \) is strongly progressively measurable, and Proposition 2.4 gives that
for all \(\theta \in [0,1]\).
Similarly, \(\Phi \) can be estimated in all of the norms used in (3.13)–(3.17), by a constant multiple of \(\Vert u_0\Vert _{L^p(\Omega ,X_{\delta ,p})}\). The process \(V := U - \Phi \) is then a solution of
where \({\widetilde{F}}(t,x) = F(t,x+\Phi (t))\) and \({\widetilde{G}}(t,x) = B(t) \Phi (t) + G(t,x+\Phi (t))\) satisfy the same conditions as F and G. This completes the reduction to \(u_{0}=0\).
Step 1: Local existence and uniqueness. We first prove existence in spaces of the form
where \(\kappa \in (0,T)\) will be determined later, and \(\theta \in [0,1]\). To simplify notation, we omit the parameter \(\kappa \), and consider the norm \(|||\cdot |||\) on \(Z_{1}\), defined by
with \(M = (1-\nu )^{-1}(K_{\mathrm{det}} {{\widetilde{L}}}_{F} + K_{\mathrm{st}} {{\widetilde{L}}}_{B})\).
For \(\phi \in Z_1\) we consider the linearised problem
By Assumptions 3.12 and 3.13, we have that \(F(\cdot , \phi )\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };X_0))\) and \(G(\cdot , \phi )\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };\gamma (H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\). Therefore, by Assumption 3.11, there exists a bounded map \(L:Z_1\rightarrow Z_1\) such that \(L(\phi )\) is the (unique) strong solution of (3.20).
By linearity, we thus have that, for \(\phi _1,\phi _2\in Z_1\), the process \(U = L(\phi _1)-L(\phi _2)\) is a strong solution of
where \(f = F(\cdot ,\phi _1) - F(\cdot ,\phi _2)\) and \(g = G(\cdot ,\phi _1) - G(\cdot ,\phi _2)\). Therefore, by Assumptions 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13,
We thus have that
by definition of \(\nu \) and \(|||\cdot |||\).
Moreover, for fixed \(t\in [0,\kappa ]\), we have that
using (3.21) and the easy part of Lemma 2.7. Here \(C_X\) denotes the embedding constant of \(X_{1/2}\hookrightarrow X_0\), and \(C_A, C_{B}\) are the constants in Assumption 3.4. Then, using first Hölder’s inequality, Assumptions 3.12 and 3.13, and estimate (3.22) next, we have that
Taking \(L^p((0,\kappa ), w_{\alpha })\)-norms in t on both sides we obtain
and thus
with \(\lim _{\kappa \downarrow 0}c(\kappa ) = 0\). Setting
(or \(\kappa = T\) if the infimum is taken over the empty set), we have that \((1-\nu + Mc(\kappa ))\le 1-\tfrac{1}{2}\nu \), and therefore that L has a unique fixed point \(U \in Z_1\). The end time \(\kappa \) only depends on \(\nu \), p, \(\alpha \), the constants \(C_A, C_B, K_{\mathrm{det}}, K_{\mathrm{st}}\), the Lipschitz constants of F and B, and the spaces \(X_0\) and \(X_1\).
Considering a version of U with continuous paths (see comment below (3.6)), we can assume that, for all \(t\in [0,\kappa ]\), \(U(t)=L(U(t))\) holds almost surely. The process U is thus the unique strong solution of (3.1), and satisfies
which gives
Step 2: Regularity. Let \(S \in (0,T)\), and U be a strong solution of (3.1) on the time interval \(J=[0,S]\). Assume that
Then, from Step 0 and \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p, \alpha , S)\), we obtain, for \(U=L(U)\):
for all \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\), using Assumptions 3.12, 3.13 and (3.23). This proves (3.15) for \(I = J\). Thus (3.16) and (3.17) for \(I = J\) follows from Proposition 2.3. Finally, (3.13) and (3.14) follow from Proposition 2.5.
Step 3: Global existence and uniqueness.
To prove global existence and uniqueness let \(S \in (0,T)\), and \(U \in Z_{1,S}\) be a strong solution of (3.1) on the time interval \(J=[0,S]\). To obtain global existence, we just have to show that there exist an \(\eta >0\) (independent of S) and a strong solution \(U \in Z_{1,S+\eta }\) on the interval \([S, S+\eta ]\), with initial condition U(S) at time S. By Step 2, we have that, for every \(\varepsilon \in (0,S)\),
We can thus define \(V(t) = U - e^{-(t-S)A_0} U(S)\) and, reduce the problem to \(V(S)=0\), as in Step 0. Repeating Step 1, we find an \(\eta >0\) (depending on the parameters only as \(\nu \) did) and a unique strong solution \(U\in L^p(\Omega ;L^p((S, S+\eta );X_1))\). The regularity estimates (3.13)–(3.17) then follow from Step 2, and global existence and uniqueness is proven by repeating this procedure finitely many times.
Step 4: Continuous dependence. For \(\kappa \) as in Step 1, the process \(U = U^1 - U^2\) is a strong solution of
with \(f = F(\cdot ,U^1) - F(\cdot ,U^2)\) and \(g = F(\cdot ,U^1) - F(\cdot ,U^2)\). Repeating Step 1, we have that
and thus
Step 2 then gives the regularity estimates, while Step 3 extends the result from \([0,\kappa ]\) to [0, T], which concludes the proof. \(\square \)
Remark 3.16
The results of Theorem 3.15 can be further “localized” to include non-integrable initial values, and locally Lipschitz functions F and G. We refer to [94, Theorem 5.6] for details.
3.5 Reduction to \(B = 0\)
Before we continue to applications to SPDEs we show that there is a setting in which one can reduce to the case where \(B = 0\) by using Itô’s formula. Such a reduction is standard (cf. [16, Theorem 3.1], [26, Section 6.6] and [68, Section 4.2]), but it seems that the general setting below has never been considered before. It leads to an abstract form of a so-called stochastic parabolicity condition. In the variational setting (\(p=2\)) a stochastic parabolicity condition appears in a more natural way (see [83, 114]). We refer to [15, 36, 62, 74] for situations in which one cannot reduce to \(B = 0\), but where one still is able to introduce a natural p-dependent stochastic parabolicity condition.
Assumption 3.17
Let \(B:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_1, {{\mathcal {L}}}(H,X_{\frac{1}{2}}))\) be given by
Here \(b_j:{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow H\) is progressively measurable and there is a constant \(M_0\ge 0\) such that for almost all \((t,\omega )\), \(\Vert b_j(t,\omega )\Vert _H\le M_0\). Each of the operators \(B_j\) generates a strongly continuous group on \(X_k\) for \(k\in \{0,1\}\) and there exists an \(M_1\ge 0\) such that for all \(t\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\), \(\Vert e^{tB_j}\Vert _{{{\mathcal {L}}}(X_k)}\le M_1\) for \(k\in \{0,1\}\). For every \(i,j\in \{1, \ldots , J\}\) and \(s,t\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\), \(e^{sB_i}\) and \(e^{tB_j}\) commute on \(X_0\), and \(e^{sB_i}\) and A(t) commute on \(X_1\). Furthermore assume \(X_{\frac{1}{2}} \subseteq D(B_j)\) and \(X_1 \subseteq D(B_j^2)\).
The adjoints \(A(t,\omega )^*\) are closed operators on \(X_0^*\) and have a constant domain \(D_{A^*}\) such that \(D_{A^*}\subseteq D((B_j^*)^2)\).
Let \(\alpha \in [0,1]\), \(S_B:{{\mathbb {R}}}^J\rightarrow {{\mathcal {L}}}(X_\alpha )\) and \(\zeta :{{\mathbb {R}}}_+\times \Omega \rightarrow {{\mathbb {R}}}^J\) be given by
Consider the problem
where \(\widetilde{f}(t) = S_B(-\zeta (t)) f(t)\) and \(\widetilde{g}(t) = S_B(-\zeta (t)) g(t)\) and \(\widetilde{A}(t) = A(t) + \frac{1}{2} [B(t), B(t)]\) with
Usually [B(t), B(t)] is of “negative” type, whereas A(t) is of “positive” type.
Next we show that the problems (3.5) and (3.26) are equivalent under the above commutation conditions.
Theorem 3.18
Suppose Assumptions 3.1, 3.4 and 3.17 hold. Let \(\widetilde{U}:[0,T]\times \Omega \rightarrow \gamma (H,X_{1})\) be progressively measurable and assume \(\widetilde{U}\in L^2(0,T;\gamma (H,X_{1})\) a.s. Let \({U}(t) = S_B(\zeta (t)) \widetilde{U}(t)\), where \(S_B\) and \(\zeta \) are as in (3.25). Then U is a strong solution to (3.5) if and only if \(\widetilde{U}\) is a strong solution to (3.26). Moreover, \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) if and only if \(({\widetilde{A}}, 0)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\).
Proof
Fix \(\psi \in D_{A^*}\) and let \(\phi :{{\mathbb {R}}}^J\rightarrow D_{A^*}\) be given by \(\phi (a) = S_B(a)^*\psi \). First assume \(\widetilde{U}\) is a strong solution to (3.26). The aim of this first step it to apply Itô calculus to find a formula for \(\langle U, \psi \rangle = \langle \widetilde{U}, \phi (\zeta )\rangle \).
As a first step we apply Itô’s formula to \(\phi (\zeta )\). For this note that the operators \(B_j^*\) are commuting as well. Moreover, one can check that \(e^{sB_j^*}\) leaves \(D_{A^*}\) invariant and since \(D_{A^*}\subset D((B_j^*)^2)\), it follows that \(\phi \) is twice continuously differentiable and
By Itô’s formula (see [16]) a.s. for all \(t\in [0,T]\),
where \([B(s),B(s)]^*\) stands for the adjoint of [B(s), B(s)] (see (3.27)).
Now applying Itô’s formula to the duality pairing on \(X\times X^*\) gives a.s. for all \(t\in [0,T]\)
where we used Assumption (3.17) to commute \(S_B(a)\) with \(B_j\) and A(s). By Hahn–Banach it follows that U is strong solution of (3.1).
Similarly, if U is a strong solution to (3.1) one sees that \(\widetilde{U}\) is a strong solution to (3.26) by applying Itô’s formula to \(\langle \widetilde{U}, \phi (\zeta )\rangle \), where now \(\phi :{{\mathbb {R}}}^J\rightarrow \Psi \) is given by \(\phi (a) = S_B(-a)^*\psi \).
The final assertion is clear from the properties of \(S_B(\pm \zeta (t))\). \(\square \)
4 Parabolic systems of SPDEs of 2m-th order
In this section we develop an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory for systems of SPDEs of order 2m. The case \(m=1\) (where more can be proven) will be considered in Sect. 5. A similar setting was considered in [94, Section 6] but under a regularity assumption on the coefficients of the operator A. At the same time it extends some of the results in [68]. For more discussion on this we refer to Sect. 5. Finally we mention that the temporal weights allow us to obtain an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory for a wider class of initial values than usually considered.
The main novelty in the results below are that the coefficients \(a_{\alpha \beta }\) are allowed to be matrix-valued, random, and in the time-variable we do not assume any smoothness of the coefficients. The precise assumptions are stated below.
In this section we consider the following system of stochastic PDEs on \([0,T]\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\):
where \(w_n\) is a sequence of independent standard Brownian motions. The function \(U:[0,T]\times \Omega \rightarrow L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) is the unknown.
The operator A is given by
and there will be no need to consider lower order terms as they can be absorbed in the function f.
Remark 4.1
We work in the non-divergence form case, but the divergence form case can be treated in the same manner. Indeed, we decompose the problem into a time-dependent deterministic part, and a time-independent stochastic part. We thus only need to use [33, Theorem 6.3] instead of [33, Theorem 5.2] for the time-dependent deterministic part.
Remark 4.2
In (4.1) we have left out the B-term which we did consider in (3.1) in the abstract setting. However, any operator B(t) of \((m-1)\)-th order with coefficients which are \(W^{1,\infty }\) in the space variable could be included as well. Moreover, no stochastic parabolicity is required as B is of lower order. We choose to leave this out as one can insert this into the nonlinearities \(g_n\). If one wishes to include operators B which are m-th order, then this either requires a smallness condition in terms of the maximal regularity estimates, or in order to apply Sect. 3.5 the highest order terms needs to be a group generator. It follows from [12, Theorem 0.1] (and from [49, Theorem 1.14] if \(d=N=1\)) that if B is a differential operator of order \(\ge 2\) and B generates a strongly continuous group then necessarily \(q=2\).
In order to state the conditions on the coefficients \(a_{\alpha \beta }:[0,T]\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow {{\mathbb {C}}}^N\) we define the oscillation function at x of radius r. For \(\phi \in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)\) let
Note that if \(|\phi (y)-\phi (z)|\le \omega (\varepsilon )\) for all \(y,z\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) satisfying \(|x-y|<\varepsilon \), then \(\text {osc}_{r,x}\le \omega (r)\). For discussions on this definition and the connections with VMO and BMO we refer to [72, Chapter 6].
Assumption 4.3
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(1)
The functions \(a_{\alpha \beta }:[0,T]\times \Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow {{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N}\) are strongly progressively measurable.
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(2)
There exist \(\mu \in (0,1)\) and \(K>0\) such that
$$\begin{aligned} \text {Re}\,\Big (\sum _{|\alpha |=|\beta | = m} \xi ^{\alpha } \xi ^{\beta } (a_{\alpha \beta }(t,\omega ,x)\theta , \theta )_{{{\mathbb {C}}}^N}\Big ) \ge \mu |\xi |^{2m} |\theta |^2, \end{aligned}$$and \(|a_{\alpha \beta }(t,\omega ,x)|_{{{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N}}\le K\) for all \(\xi \in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d, \theta \in {{\mathbb {C}}}^N, x\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d, t\in [0,T]\) and \(\omega \in \Omega \).
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(3)
Let \(\gamma \in (0,1)\). Assume there exists an \(R\in (0,\infty )\) such that for all \(|\alpha |, |\beta |=m\), \(r\in (0,R]\), \(x\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\), \(t\in [0,T]\) and \(\omega \in \Omega \),
$$\begin{aligned} \text {osc}_{r,x}(a_{\alpha \beta }(t,\omega ,\cdot ))\le \gamma . \end{aligned}$$
Note that in \((t,\omega )\) only measurability is assumed.
For the \(\Omega \)-independent setting, a slightly less restrictive condition appears in [33, Theorem 5.2]. We choose the above formulation assumption in order to make the assumptions easier to state. However, it is possible to extend the results of this section to their setting.
Concerning f and \(g_n\) we make the following assumptions:
Assumption 4.4
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(1)
The function \(f:[0,T]\times \Omega \times H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\rightarrow L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) is strongly progressively measurable, \(f(\cdot , \cdot ,0)\in L^p(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\), and there exist \(L_{f}\) and \({{\widetilde{L}}}_{f}\) such that for all \(t\in [0,T]\), \(\omega \in \Omega \), and \(u,v\in H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\),
$$\begin{aligned} \Vert f(t,\omega , u) - f(t,\omega ,v)\Vert _{L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d,{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)}&\le L_{f} \Vert D^{2m} u-D^{2m} v\Vert _{L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)}\\&\quad +{{\widetilde{L}}}_{f} \Vert u-v\Vert _{H^{2m-1,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)}. \end{aligned}$$ -
(2)
The functions \(g_n:[0,T]\times \Omega \times H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N) \rightarrow H^{m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) are strongly progressive measurable, \((g_n)_{n\ge 1} (\cdot , \cdot , 0)\in L^p(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };H^{m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;\ell ^2({{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\) and there exist \(L_{g}\), \({{\widetilde{L}}}_{g}\) such that for all \(t\in [0,T]\), \(\omega \in \Omega \), and \(u,v\in H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\),
$$\begin{aligned} \Vert (g_n(t,\omega , u) - g_n(t,\omega ,v))_{n\ge 1}\Vert _{H^{m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;\ell ^2({{\mathbb {C}}}^N))}&\le L_{g} \Vert D^{2m}u-D^{2m}v\Vert _{L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)}\\&\quad + {{\widetilde{L}}}_{g} \Vert u-v\Vert _{H^{2m-1,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)}. \end{aligned}$$
The nonlinearity f can depend on \(u, D^1 u, \ldots , D^{2m} u\) in a Lipschitz continuous way as long as the dependence on \(D^{2m} u\) has a small Lipschitz constant. One could allow lower order terms in A, but one can just put them into the function f. Similarly, g can depend on \(u, D^1 u, \ldots , D^m u\) in a Lipschitz continuous way as long as the dependence on \(D^m u\) has a small Lipschitz constant.
The main result of this section is as follows.
Theorem 4.5
Let \(T\in (0,\infty )\), \(p\in (2, \infty )\), \(q\in [2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (or \(q=r=2\) and \(\alpha =0\)). Set \(\delta = 1- \frac{1+\alpha }{p}\) and \(I=(0,T)\). Assume there exist a constant \(\varrho = \varrho (p,q,\alpha ,T,m,N,d,R,K,\mu )\) such that Assumptions 4.3 and 4.4 hold with \(\gamma ,L_f,L_g\in (0,\varrho )\). Then for any \(u_0\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0; B^{2m\delta }_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\), the problem (4.1) has a unique strong solution \(U\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };H^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\). Moreover, there exist constants \(C, C_{\varepsilon }, C_{\varepsilon ,\theta }\) depending on \(p,q,\alpha , T,m,N,d,R,K,\mu \) and the Lipschitz constants of F and G such that
where
Furthermore, if \(U^{1}, U^2\) are the strong solution of (4.1) with initial value \(u_0^1,u_0^2\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0;B^{2m\delta }_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\) respectively, then each of the above estimates holds with U replaced by \(U^1-U^2\), and \(K_{u_0,f,g}\) replaced by \(K_{u_0^1-u_0^2,f,g}\) on the right-hand side.
Proof
Let \(X_0 =L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) and \(X_1 =W^{2m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\). Since the coefficients \(a_{\alpha \beta }\) are uniformly bounded, Assumption 3.4 holds (with \(B=0\)). Let \(X_\theta =H^{2m\theta ,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) for \(\theta \in (0,1)\). Note that if \(\theta \in [0,1]\) and \(2m\theta \in {{\mathbb {N}}}\), then \(X_\theta = W^{2m\theta ,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) (see [115, Theorem 2.33]). Let \(X_{\theta ,p}:=(X_0, X_1)_{\theta ,p} = B^{2m\theta }_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\). By [115, 2.4.2 (11) and (16)] Assumption 3.1 holds.
On \(X_0\) consider \(A_0 = (1-\Delta )^{m} I_N\) with \(D(A_0) =X_1\), where \(I_N\) stands for the \(N\times N\) diagonal operator. Then by [52, Theorem 10.2.25] and [47, Corollary 5.5.5] \(0\in \rho (A_0)\) and the operator \(A_0\) has a bounded \(H^\infty \)-calculus of angle 0. Now from Proposition 3.8 we obtain that condition (1) of Theorem 3.9 holds. From [33, Theorem 5.2 and Section 8] we deduce that the condition (ii) of Theorem 3.9 holds. Therefore, Theorem 3.9 shows that \(A\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\).
It remains to check the conditions of Theorem 3.15. From the above we see that Assumption 3.11 holds. Furthermore we claim that for any \(\varepsilon >0\), the function \(F=f\) satisfies Assumption 3.12 with constants
Indeed, it suffices to note that for any \(k\in \{1, \ldots , 2m-1\}\) (see [72, Exercise 1.5.6])
for all \(\varepsilon >0\).
Since \(\gamma (\ell ^2,X_{\frac{1}{2}}) = H^{m,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;\ell ^2({{\mathbb {C}}}^N))\) isomorphically (use [52, Proposition 9.3.2] and the isomorphism \(A_0^{1/2}\)), in a similar way as above one sees that the function \(G = g\) satisfies Assumption 3.13 with \(L_G = L_g+\varepsilon \) and \({\widetilde{L}}_G = C_{\varepsilon }{\widetilde{L}}_g\).
Now all the statements follow from Theorem 3.15. \(\square \)
Remark 4.6
To obtain the regularity result of Theorem 4.5 in the whole scale of spaces \(H^{s,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) with \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\) one needs to assume smoothness on the coefficients \(a_{\alpha \beta }\), and change the assumptions on f, g and \(u_0\) appropriately. Indeed, as in [68, Section 5] this follows by applying \((1-\Delta )^{s/2}\) to both sides of the equation and introducing \(V = (1-\Delta )^{s/2} U\), where \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\). The details are left to the reader.
In [68, Theorem 7.2] another method to derive space-time regularity results is described. In the latter result one loses an \(\varepsilon \) of regularity. The sharp identifications and embeddings obtained in [95] and in the weighted case in [1], make it possible to avoid this loss in regularity.
Remark 4.7
A version of Theorem 4.5 with \(A_{\frac{p}{2}}\)-weights in time and \(A_q\)-weights in space holds as well. Here one can take any weight \(v\in A_{\frac{q}{2}}\) in time and \(w\in A_r\) in space. For details we refer to [33, Theorem 5.2 and Section 8] and [42, Section 4.4].
As a consequence we obtain the following Hölder continuity result in space-time.
Corollary 4.8
Consider the setting of Theorem 4.5 and assume \(mq\ge d\) and \(2m\delta -\frac{d}{q}\notin {{\mathbb {N}}}\). Then for every \(\lambda \in (0,\delta -\frac{1}{2})\), there exists a constant C such that
where \(K_{u_0,f,g}\) is given by (4.5)
Proof
By Sobolev embedding (see [115, Theorem 2.8.1(d) and (e)]) the spaces \(B^{s}_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) and \(H^{s,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) continuously embed into \(C^{s-\frac{d}{q}}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) if \(s>\frac{d}{q}\) and \(s-\frac{d}{q}\notin {{\mathbb {N}}}\). Therefore, Theorem 4.5 yields
where the estimate for the second term follows by taking \(\theta = \lambda +\frac{1+\alpha }{p}\) and noting that \(H^{2m(1-\theta ),q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\hookrightarrow C({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)\) which follows from \(\theta <\frac{1}{2}\) and \(2m(1-\theta )>\frac{d}{q}\). Combining the estimates of both terms the space-time Hölder regularity follows. \(\square \)
Remark 4.9
In the space variable Corollary 4.8 yields an endpoint result. Moreover, the best regularity result is obtained if \(\alpha = 0\) in which case \(\delta = 1-\frac{1}{p}\) which leads to the most restrictive condition on \(u_0\). If Assumptions 4.3 and 4.4 hold for arbitrary large values of \(p,q\in (2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha =0\), then the above result implies that for any \(\varepsilon >0\)
and corresponding \(L^p(\Omega )\)-estimates hold for any \(p\in (2, \infty )\). Improved Hölder regularity results of order \(s+2m\) in the space variable can be obtained if f and g map into \(H^{s,q}\) (see Remark 4.6). It would be interesting to develop a Hölder theory for (4.1) as it is done in [36] for \(m=1\).
5 Parabolic systems of SPDEs of second order
In this section we discuss \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory for systems of second order SPDEs with rough initial values. The setting is the same as in Sect. 4. However, this time we will consider \(B \ne 0\). Related problems have been discussed in [62] in an \(L^p(L^p)\)-setting with smooth initial values and in [36] in an \(L^p(\Omega ;L^2((0,T)\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\)-setting and a Hölder setting, with vanishing initial values.
In this section we consider the following system of stochastic PDEs on \([0,T]\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\):
where \(w_n\) is a sequence of independent standard Brownian motions. The function \(U:[0,T]\times \Omega \rightarrow L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) is the unknown.
The operators A and \(b_n\) are given by
There is no need to consider lower order terms in A or \(b_n\) since they can be absorbed in the functions f and \(g_n\), respectively.
Remark 5.1
The divergence form case could be treated in a similar manner. See Remark 4.1.
We make the following assumptions on the coefficients.
Assumption 5.2
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(1)
The functions \(a_{ij}:[0,T]\times \Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow {{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N}\) and \(\sigma _{jkn}:[0,T]\times \Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\rightarrow {{\mathbb {R}}}\) are strongly progressively measurable.
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(2)
There exist \(\mu \in (0,1)\) and \(K>0\) such that \(|a_{ij}(t,\omega ,x)|_{{{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N}}\le K\) and \(\Vert (\sigma _{jkn}(t,\omega ,\cdot ))_{n\ge 1}\Vert _{W^{1,\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;\ell ^2)}\le K\).
$$\begin{aligned} \text {Re}\,\Big ( \sum _{i,j=1}^d \xi _{i} \xi _{j} ((a_{ij}(t,\omega ,x)-\Sigma _{ij}(t,\omega ,x))\theta , \theta )_{{{\mathbb {C}}}^N}\Big ) \ge \mu |\xi |^{2} |\theta |^2, \end{aligned}$$for all \(\xi \in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d, \theta \in {{\mathbb {C}}}^N, x\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d, t\in [0,T]\). Here for each fixed numbers \(i,j\in \{1, \ldots , d\}\), \(\Sigma _{ij}(t,\omega ,x)\) is the \(N\times N\) diagonal matrix with diagonal elements \((\frac{1}{2} \sum _{n\ge 1}\sigma _{ikn}(t,\omega ,x) \sigma _{jkn}(t,\omega ,x))_{k=1}^N\).
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(3)
Assume there exists an increasing continuous function \(\zeta :[0,\infty )\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) with \(\zeta (0) = 0\) such that for all i, j, \(x,y\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\), \(t\in [0,T]\) and \(\omega \in \Omega \),
$$\begin{aligned} |a_{i,j}(t,\omega ,x) - a_{i,j}(t,\omega ,y)| + \sum _{n\ge 1} |\sigma _{jkn}(t,\omega ,x)-\sigma _{jkn}(t,\omega ,y)|^2\le \zeta (|x-y|). \end{aligned}$$
We start with the x-independent case.
Theorem 5.3
Let \(T\in (0,\infty )\), \(p\in (2, \infty )\), \(q\in [2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (or \(p=q=2\) and \(\alpha =0\)). Set \(\delta = 1- \frac{1+\alpha }{p}\) and \(I=(0,T)\). Suppose Assumption 5.2 holds, Assumption 4.4 holds with \(m=1\), and suppose further that \(a_{ij}\) and \(\sigma _{jkn}\) are x-independent. Then for any \(u_0\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0; B^{2\delta }_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\), the problem (5.1) has a unique strong solution \(U\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };H^{2,q}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\). Moreover, there exist constants \(C, C_{\varepsilon }, C_{\varepsilon ,\theta }\) depending on \(p,q,\alpha , T,N,d,K,\mu \) and the Lipschitz constants of f and g such that
where
Furthermore, if \(U^{1}, U^2\) are the strong solution of (5.1) with initial value \(u_0^1,u_0^2\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0;B^{2\delta }_{q,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\) respectively, then each of the above estimates holds with U replaced by \(U^1-U^2\), and \(K_{u_0,f,g}\) replaced by \(K_{u_0^1-u_0^2,f,g}\) on the right-hand side.
Proof
Define the function spaces \(X_{\theta } = H^{2\theta ,q}\) and \(X_{\theta , p}=(X_{0},X_{1})_{\theta ,p}\) as in Theorem 4.5 with \(m=1\). Clearly, Assumptions 3.1 and 3.4 hold. In order to prove the result we will check the conditions of Theorem 3.15 again. The proof is the same as for Theorem 4.5, but this time we need to check \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha , T)\) with a nonzero B. Indeed, let \(B(t)u = \sum _{k=1}^N \sum _{j=1}^d b_{jk}(t) B_{jk}\) with
where \(\delta _{k\ell }\) is the Kronecker symbol. Then \(B_{jk}\) generates a translation group on \(L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^{N})\) given by \((e^{t B_{jk}} u(x))_\ell =u_\ell (x+\delta _{k\ell } t e_j)\), where \(e_j\) denotes the j-th unit vector in \({{\mathbb {R}}}^d\). Then Assumption 3.17 is fulfilled, thanks to the fact that the coefficients are x-independent. Moreover,
Letting \(\widetilde{A}(t) = A(t) +\frac{1}{2}[B(t),B(t)]\), Theorem 3.18 gives that \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha , T)\) if and only if \((\widetilde{A},0)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p, \alpha , T)\). However, by Assumption 5.2 the operator \(\widetilde{A}\) fulfils Assumption 4.3 (with \(m=1\)), and therefore, as in the proof of Theorem 4.5, we find that \((\widetilde{A},0)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p, \alpha , T)\). \(\square \)
In the x-dependent case we obtain the following, where unlike in Theorems 4.5 and 5.3 we have to take \(p=q\).
Theorem 5.4
Let \(T\in (0,\infty )\), \(p\in [2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (where \(\alpha =0\) if \(p=2\)). Set \(\delta = 1- \frac{1+\alpha }{p}\) and \(I=(0,T)\). Suppose Assumption 5.2 holds and 4.4 holds with \(m=1\). Then for any \(u_0\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0; B^{2\delta }_{p,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\), the problem (5.1) has a unique strong solution \(U\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega ;L^p(I,w_{\alpha };H^{2,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\). Moreover, there exist constants \(C, C_{\varepsilon }, C_{\varepsilon ,\theta }\) depending on \(p,\alpha , T,N,d,\zeta ,K,\mu \) and the Lipschitz constants of f and g such that
where
Furthermore, if \(U^{1}, U^2\) are the strong solution of (5.1) with initial value \(u_0^1,u_0^2\in L^p(\Omega ,{{\mathcal {F}}}_0;B^{2\delta }_{p,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d))\) respectively, then each of the above estimates holds with U replaced by \(U^1-U^2\), and \(K_{u_0,f,g}\) replaced by \(K_{u_0^1-u_0^2,f,g}\) on the right-hand side.
To prove this, arguing as in Theorem 5.3 it follows from Theorem 3.15 that it suffices to prove that \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\). We will use a variation of a localization argument of [68, Section 6]. For this we start with the following lemma.
Lemma 5.5
(Freezing lemma) Let \(T\in (0,\infty )\), \(p\in [2, \infty )\) and \(\alpha \in [0,\frac{p}{2}-1)\) (where \(\alpha =0\) if \(p=2\)). Set \(\delta = 1- \frac{1+\alpha }{p}\) and \(I=(0,T)\). Suppose Assumption 5.2 holds. Let \(f\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N))\) and \(g\in L^p_{{{\mathcal {F}}}}(\Omega \times I,w_{\alpha };H^{1,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;\ell ^2))\). Assume U is a strong solution of
There exists an \(\varepsilon = \varepsilon (p,q,\alpha , T,N,d,K,\mu )\) such that if U has support in \(B_{\varepsilon }(x_0) = \{x\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d:|x-x_0|<\varepsilon \}\) for some \(x_0\), then for each \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\) there is a constant C such that
Proof
Without loss of generality we can assume \(x_0 = 0\). In order to simplify the notation let
Let \({\widetilde{A}}(t)\) and \(\widetilde{b_n}(t)\) be given by
Furthermore, let
Clearly, U satisfies
Therefore, by Theorem 5.3
To estimate the latter note that by Assumption 5.2 and the support condition on U, we have
Similarly, for the \(b_n\)-term, by the product rule and Assumption 5.2, we obtain (with K as in Assumption 5.2) that for all \(t \in [0,T]\),
where in the last step we used [72, Corollary 1.5.2]. We can conclude that
Now let \(\theta = 0\) and choose \(\varepsilon >0\) such that \(C (2\zeta (\varepsilon ) + \varepsilon )\le \frac{1}{2}\). Then we obtain
The same estimate holds with T replaced by t.
Since U is a strong solution of (5.2), Lemma 2.7, the properties of A and \(b_n\), and (5.5) give that, for all \(t\in [0,T]\),
Therefore, Gronwall’s lemma gives that for all \(t\in [0,T]\),
and thus
Substituting the latter estimate in (5.4) and (5.5) we find that for all \(\theta \in [0,\frac{1}{2})\),
\(\square \)
To be able to apply the freezing lemma, one also needs the following elementary Fubini result, which is trivial if \(I = {{\mathbb {R}}}\), but for bounded intervals can still be deduced from an interpolation argument.
Lemma 5.6
Let \(\theta \in [0,1]\), \(p \in (1,\infty )\) and \(w\in A_p\). Let \(I= (0,T)\) for some \(T\in (0,\infty ]\). Let \(\phi \in L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) be such that \(\Vert \phi \Vert _{L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})} = 1\). We have that
for all \(f \in H^{\theta ,p}(I,w;L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\).
Proof
Let \(\psi \in L^{p'}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) of norm one be such that \(\langle \phi , \psi \rangle =1\). Consider the operators defined by
for \(f \in L^p(I,w;L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};{{\mathbb {C}}}^N))\) and \(F \in L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;L^p(I,w;L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\). Note that \(QPf = f\). By complex interpolation (see Proposition 2.4), it is thus enough to show that
for \(\theta = 0,1\). Let us consider \(\theta = 0\) first. For Q, by Hölder’s inequality we have that
and hence \(\Vert Q\Vert \le 1\) for \(\theta =0\). The above inequalities with f replaced by \(\partial _{t}f\), and F replaced by \(\partial _{t} F\), then gives \(\Vert Q\Vert \le 1\) for \(\theta =1\). By Fubini it is straightforward to check that P is an isometry for \(\theta = 0,1\), and thus the result follows. \(\square \)
We also need the following simple commutator formula.
Lemma 5.7
Let \(\phi \in C^1_c({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)\) and \(\psi \in W^{1,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)\). Then for all \(s\in (0,1)\)
Proof
The identity immediately follows from the following well-known identity (see [77, Theorem 1.1(e)])
\(\square \)
Proof of Theorem 5.4
As already mentioned it suffices to prove that \((A,B)\in \mathrm{SMR}(p,\alpha ,T)\) (in particular, one only has to treat the problem with \(u_{0}=0\)). To prove this we will use Proposition 3.10 and Lemma 5.5.
Step 1: Let \(\theta \in (0,\frac{1}{2})\) and \(U \in Y_{0,1,T} \cap Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\) be a solution to (5.1). We first prove an a priori estimate in the \(Y_{0,1,T}\) norm. Let \(\varepsilon >0\) be as in Lemma 5.5. Let \(\phi \in C^\infty _c({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)\) be such that \(\text {supp\,}(\phi )\subseteq B_{\varepsilon }(0)\) and \(\Vert \phi \Vert _{L^p({{\mathbb {R}}}^d)} = 1\). Fix \(\xi \in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) and let \(V^{\xi }(t)(x) = U(t)(x) \phi (x-\xi )\). Then \(\text {supp\,}V^{\xi }\subseteq [0,T]\times B_{\varepsilon }(\xi )\), \(V^{\xi }(t)(0) = 0\) and \(V^{\xi }\) satisfies
where
for some coefficients \(c_{\beta ,\gamma }\in L^\infty ((0,T)\times \Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N})\). Now Lemma 5.5 (in the notation of its proof) implies that for any \(\theta '\in [0,\frac{1}{2})\) there exists a C such that
First let \(\theta '=0\). For \(|\alpha |=2\) we have (by the product rule)
Therefore, after an integration over \(\xi \in {{\mathbb {R}}}^d\) using Lemma 5.6, and using the classical identity \(W^{k,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N) = H^{k,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) for \(k\in {{\mathbb {N}}}\) we can conclude
By using interpolation inequality (4.2) for \(k=m=1\) we find
The same is true with T replaced by t. Therefore, the term \(\Vert U\Vert _{Y_{0, 0, T}}\) can be estimated by Gronwall’s lemma in the same way as in the proof of Lemma 5.5. Therefore, we obtain
This is the required a priori estimate.
Step 2: Let \(\theta \in (0,\frac{1}{2})\) and \(U \in Y_{0,1,T} \cap Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\) be a solution to (5.1). We now prove an a priori estimate in the \(Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\) norm. For this we use (5.6) again. Observe that
Therefore, by Lemma 5.7 we can write
It thus follows from (5.6) that
By Lemma 2.1 and Proposition 2.4 we have
Therefore, substituting this in the penultimate estimate and using Lemma 5.6, we obtain (noting that \(1-\theta >\frac{1}{2}\) so \(U\in Y_{\theta , \frac{1}{2},T}\)):
where R is given by
Now write \(R = R_1+ R_2\), where \(R_1\) is the part of the integral for \(|h|<1\) and \(R_2\) is the part of the integral for \(|h|\ge 1\). Using the fundamental theorem of calculus, Fubini, the triangle inequality and the translation invariance of \(Y_{\theta ,0,T}\) in the space variable, we obtain
where \(C = C_{\phi } \int _{|h|<1}|h|^{2\theta -d} dh\). Similarly,
where \(C= C_{\phi } \int _{|h|\ge 1} |h|^{-1+2\theta -d} dh\). Combining this with (5.8), summing over j and using Lemma 2.2 we obtain
Now using the interpolation estimate of Proposition 2.4 once more (which is possible because \(1-\theta >\frac{1}{2}\)), we can conclude that
In order to estimate \(\Vert U\Vert _{Y_{\theta , 0, T}}\) note that by Lemma 2.7, (2.3) and (5.7),
We thus have the a priori estimate:
Step 3: Now to prove the existence of a solution in \(Y_{0,1,T} \cap Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\) let \({\widetilde{A}} = -\Delta \). Then by Proposition 3.8 the problem (5.1) with A replaced by \({\widetilde{A}}\) has a unique strong solution in \(Y_{0,1,T} \cap Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\). Moreover, letting \(A_{\lambda }\) and \(B_{\lambda }\) be as in Proposition 3.10 it follows from the previous steps that the a priori bounds hold uniformly in \(\lambda \in [0,1]\). Therefore, Proposition 3.10 and the text below it gives the existence of a solution \(U \in Y_{0,1,T} \cap Y_{\theta ,1-\theta ,T}\) to (5.1). \(\square \)
Remark 5.8
To obtain regularity in the scale \(H^{s,p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)\) for \(s\in {{\mathbb {R}}}\) in Theorem 5.4, Remark 4.6 applies again.
Remark 5.9
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(1)
It would be natural to ask for an \(L^p(L^q)\)-theory in Theorem 5.4. In [42] \(A_p\)-weights in time, in combination with Rubio de Francia extrapolation techniques, have been used to derive the case \(p\ne q\) from \(p=q\), in the case of continuous coefficients in time. This was later extended to VMO coefficients in space in [33]. The extrapolation technique would be applicable here as well, but it only gives regularity in \(L^p(0,T,L^q(\Omega ;L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\) and not in \(L^p((0,T)\times \Omega ;L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^N)))\) as one would like.
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(2)
Another natural question is whether Theorem 5.4 holds if the coefficients are only VMO in the space variable. Some results in this direction have been found for equations in divergence form in [73].
Remark 5.10
Let us motivate that in the commuting case the assumption that the operators \(b_n\) as defined below (5.1) is not far from the general case. Indeed, assume that \(B_1, \ldots , B_J\), are differential operators of order one which generate commuting groups on \(L^q({{\mathbb {R}}}^d;{{\mathbb {C}}}^{N\times N})\) for all \(q\in (1, \infty )\). Then we can write \(B_j u = \sum _{k=1}^d M_{jk} \partial _k u + N_j u\), where \(M_{jk}, N_j\) are \(N\times N\) matrices. Then the \(M_{jk}\) have real eigenvalues since otherwise the Fourier symbol would be unbounded (use [44, Theorem 2.5.16] to reduce to one fixed direction k). Now by [12, Theorem 0.1] the matrices \((M_{jk})_{k=1}^d\) commute and are diagonalizable. Moreover, if the groups \((e^{\cdot B_j})_{j=1}^J\) are commuting, then the operators \((M_{jk})_{j=1,k=1}^{J,d}\) are commuting as well. Therefore, a standard result from linear algebra implies that \((M_{jk})_{j=1,k=1}^{J,d}\) are simultaneously diagonalizable. Hence by a coordinate transformation we could have assumed that \(M_{jk}\) are diagonal matrices with real entries.
Of course to reduce to this setting in a general set-up the coordinate transformations would become \((t,\omega )\)-dependent and then the reduction breaks down. Even in the \((t,\omega )\)-independent case the coefficients of A change after a coordinate transformation, and more importantly the ellipticity conditions changes (unless all matrices \(M_{jk}\) are hermitian, in which case the transformation is orthogonal). On the other hand, if one does not assume the \(B_j\)’s generate commuting groups, then the above fails, and one needs to consider the case of general matrices. In general this leads to a p-dependent stochastic parabolicity condition. See [36, 62] for results in this direction.
6 Divergence form equations of second order with measurable coefficients
In this section, we consider the problem:
where \(L(t) = - div\, a(t,.) \nabla \), and \(a \in L^{\infty }(\Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}; L^{\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}; {\mathcal {L}}({{\mathbb {C}}}^{d})))\) is progressively measurable and satisfies the uniform ellipticity condition:
for almost every \((\omega , t,x) \in \Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}_{+} \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}\), and f, g belong to appropriate tent spaces defined below.
The idea of using tent spaces as solution spaces for stochastic PDE goes back to [9]. It can be seen as part of the trend to use harmonic analysis “beyond Calderón–Zygmund theory” in PDE problems with rough coefficients (see e.g. [5, 48] and the references therein). The results given here demonstrate how tent spaces can be used to treat problems with \(L^{\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) coefficients, extending the time-independent results of [9]. They include a deterministic result (under no extra assumption on the coefficients) that can be seen as the first (to the best of our knowledge) extension of Lions’s maximal regularity result from [82] to a non Hilbertian setting. For the stochastic problem, we impose that
This holds when a is divergence free, i.e. when \(\sum \limits _{i=1} ^{d} a_{i,j}\partial _{i} = 0\) (almost surely) in the sense of distributions for all \(j=1,..,d\). See Remark 6.12 for a discussion of this condition.
We plan to develop the theory presented in this section in future work. We thus only include here the simplest situation that showcases how the method of proof used in this paper (particularly in Theorem 3.9), as well as the idea of using the time weights \(w_{\alpha }\) to vary regularity, can be combined with the tent space approach of [9]. For this reason, we choose to take zero initial data (although we could add data in appropriate fractional domains, see Remark 6.10 below), and keep the equation linear (although semilinearities could be treated through fixed point arguments).
Our starting point is the \(L^2\) theory of J.L. Lions (see [75, 83, 102]), where solution spaces are the energy spaces \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+};W^{1,2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\), forcing terms are taken in \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+};W^{-1,2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\), and data are in \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\). Lions’s theory includes the existence of an evolution family \(\{\Gamma (t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) (see e.g. [27, Chap. XVIII]). In the deterministic setting, Lions’s theory has been extended in [10] to allow data in \(L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\). The appropriate solution spaces then turn out to be tent spaces \(T^{p,2} _{0}\), in the sense that there is a norm equivalence
see [10, Corollary 7.5]. Let us recall the definition of these tent spaces, and more generally of their Sobolev counterparts.
Definition 6.1
Let \(p \in [1,\infty )\) and \(\sigma \ge 0\). Let K be a Hilbert space. The tent space \(T^{p,2} _{\sigma }(K)\) is defined as the completion of \(C^{\infty } _{c} ({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+} \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};K)\) with respect to the norm
When \(K={{\mathbb {C}}}\), we just write \(T^{p,2} _{\sigma }\) instead of \(T^{p,2} _{\sigma }({{\mathbb {C}}})\).
Note that, by Fubini’s theorem, \(T^{2,2,\sigma } = L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}, \frac{dt dx}{t^{1+\sigma }})\).
As proven in [4], the aperture can be changed in the definition of \(T_{\sigma }^{p,2}\) in the following way. There exists \(C>0\) such that for \(\alpha \ge 1\) and all \(g \in T^{p,2} _{\sigma }(K)\):
We think of \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\) has being to \(T^{p,2}_{0}\) what \(W^{\sigma ,p}\) is to \(L^p\). This is motivated by the following classical fact from Littlewood–Paley theory: for all \(p>1\) and all \(u_{0} \in L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\), we have that
This follows from the Hardy space theory introduced in [40] and interpolation. Therefore, for \(\sigma \ge 0\) and \(f \in H^{\sigma ,p}\), we have that
where the last equivalence comes from a change of square function argument involving Schur’s Lemma (see e.g. [50, Theorem 7.10]). Note that, in the time dependent setting, [10, Corollary 7.5] gives that there exists \(p_{c}<2\) such that for all \(p>p_{c}\),
At this stage, we do not know if, more generally for \(\sigma \ge 0\),
In this section we thus use well chosen combinations of powers of \(div \, a \nabla \) and the parameter \(\sigma \) to measure regularity. This is in the spirit of Amenta–Auscher’s tent space approach to elliptic boundary value problems with fractional regularity [5] (where the link between \(\sigma \) and powers of the relevant Dirac operator is completely understood).
Our main result is the following theorem, proven at the end of the section.
Theorem 6.2
Let \(\sigma \ge 0\) and \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +2})\). Let \(f \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma })\), and \(g \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma +1}(H))\) be an adapted process such that \(\nabla g \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d}))\). Under Assumption (6.11), we have that the solution process defined by
satisfies
Remark 6.3
(1) To compare such tent space estimates to \(L^{p}(L^q)\) regularity, one should note that, by [7, Proposition 2.1], we have that, for all \(\sigma \ge 0\) and all \(p \ge 2\), there exists \(C>0\) such that for all \(F \in L^{p}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+},\frac{dt}{t^{1+\sigma }}))\):
The reverse inequality holds for \(p \le 2\). This means that for \(p \ge 2\) the tent space theory allows more forcing terms than its \(L^{p}(L^2)\) analogue. For \(p<2\), the class of forcing terms \(T^{p,2}\) is smaller than its \(L^{p}(L^{2})\) counterpart, which it has to be, given that maximal regularity in \(L^{p}(L^{2})\) does not hold for \(p<2\) (see [68]).
(2) On the other hand, we estimate \(\Vert U\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma +2}}\) in terms of \(\Vert \nabla g\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d})}\). A more natural generalisation of Lions’s maximal regularity result would be to estimate \(\Vert \nabla U\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d})}\) in terms of \(\Vert g\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }}\) or \(\Vert U\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }}\) in terms of \(\Vert G\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d})}\) for \(g =div G\). At this stage, we would need to know that \(\{(t-s)^{\frac{1}{2}}\nabla \Gamma (t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) is uniformly bounded in \({\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}),L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d};{{\mathbb {C}}}^{d}))\) to study such maximal regularity. The fact that we only know uniform boundedness of \(\{\Gamma (t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) is what led us to the notion of maximal regularity used here. Note, however, that this uniform boundedness of the evolution family is, in Lions’s theory, a consequence of the energy estimates that also give the \(L^{2}(W^{-1,2})-L^{2}(W^{1,2})\) maximal regularity. So, while \(L^{2}(\frac{dt}{t^{\sigma }};L^2)-L^{2}(\frac{dt}{t^{2+\sigma }};L^2)\) maximal regularity is trivial in the time independent case, it is not so in the time dependent case, where generation of a bounded evolution family is not a substantially easier question than maximal regularity. Nevertheless, we plan to return to the question of estimating \(\Vert \nabla U\Vert _{T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d})}\) in future work.
To prove Theorem 6.2, we proceed as in Theorem 3.9, and decompose the problem into a time-independent stochastic part, and a time-dependent deterministic part. Our key technical tool to estimate both parts is extrapolation in tent spaces, as developed in [8] and [9]. In particular, we need some simple variations of [9, Proposition 5.1], proven below (we include the details for the convenience of the reader). These results make extensive use of the notion of \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay.
Definition 6.4
A family of bounded linear operators \(\{K(t,s) \;;\; t>s\} \subset {\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) is said to have \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay of any order if, for each \(m \in {{\mathbb {N}}}\), there exists \(C_{m}>0\) such that, for every Borel sets \(E,F \subset {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}\), every \(u \in L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\), every \(t>s\), we have that
where \(d(E,F) = \inf \{d(x,y) \;;\; x \in E, \, y \in F\}\). A one parameter family \(\{K(t) \;;\; t>0\} \subset {\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) is said to have \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay of any order if the two parameter family \(\{K(t-s) \;;\; t>s\}\) does.
Proposition 6.5
Let \(\{K(t,s) \;;\; t>s\} \subset {\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) be uniformly bounded with \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay of any order. Assume that
defines a bounded linear operator from \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma }\) to \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma +2}\) for all \(\sigma \ge 0\). Then, for all \(\sigma \ge 0\) and all \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +4})\), \({\mathcal {M}}_{K}\) extends to a bounded linear operator from \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\) to \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma +2}\).
Proof
We introduce the sets
Let \(t>0\) and \(f \in T^{2,2} _{\sigma } \cap T^{p,2} _{\sigma }\).
where
and
Let us start with the estimate for \(I_{j,k}\) for \(j\ge 0\) and \(k\ge 1\). Using the off-diagonal decay, we have the following, for all \(x\in {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}\):
We then use the change of aperture formula in tent spaces (6.1) to get that
The sum \(\sum _{j,k} I_{j,k}\) thus converges since we assumed that \(p> \frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +4}\).
Turning to \(J_0\), and using the fact the M is bounded from \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma +\frac{d}{2}}\) to \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma +2+\frac{d}{2}}\), we have that
It remains to estimate \(J_j\) for \(j\ge 1\). We have
Using the change of aperture formula (6.1) one more time, we have that
which concludes the proof. \(\square \)
In a very similar way, we have the following stochastic version:
Proposition 6.6
Let \(\{K(t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) be a two-parameter progressively measurable process with values in \({\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\). Assume that, almost surely, \(\{K(t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) is uniformly bounded with \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay of any order. Assume further that
defines a bounded linear operator from \(L^{2}(\Omega ;T^{2,2}_{\sigma +1}(H))\) to \(L^{2}(\Omega ;T^{2,2}_{\sigma +2})\) for all \(\sigma \ge 0\). Then, for all \(\sigma \ge 0\) and \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +2})\), \({\mathcal {S}}_{K}\) extends to a bounded linear operator from \(L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma +1}(H))\) to \(L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma +2})\).
Proof
Reasoning as in [9, Proposition 5.1], and using the Itô isomorphism for stochastic integrals (Theorem 2.6) as well as a square function estimate [92, Proposition 6.1], we obtain
One can then copy the proof of Proposition 6.5 with \(\sigma \) replaced by \(\sigma +1\), undoing the Itô isometry when handling the \(J_{0}\) term. The only difference is that there is no factor \(2^{-\frac{kp}{2}}\) in front of the \(I_{j,k}\) term (as we use Itô’s isomorphism instead of Cauchy–Schwarz inequality). This is the reason why one needs \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +2})\) rather than \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +4})\). \(\square \)
6.1 Deterministic time-dependent maximal regularity in \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\).
We consider the problem
for \(f \in T^{2,2}_{s} \cap T^{p,2}_{s}\). Our goal is to derive a priori maximal regularity estimates for the solution given by
where \(\{\Gamma (t,s) \;;\; t>s\} \subset {\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) is Lions’s evolution family.
To do so, we consider the maximal regularity operator defined, for \(f \in T^{2,2}_{-1} = L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) by
Thanks to the uniform boundedness of \(\Gamma (t,s) \in {\mathcal {L}}(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) (see e.g. [10, Lemma 3.14]), we have the following mapping properties in the \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma }\) scale. See Remark for a discussion of the meaning of this notion of maximal regularity.
Proposition 6.7
The operator \({\mathcal {M}}\), initially defined on \(L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}_{+}\times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\), extends to a bounded linear operator from \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma }\) to \(T^{2,2}_{\sigma +2}\) for all \(\sigma \ge 0\).
Proof
Let \(f \in T^{2,2}_{\sigma }\). We have that \({\mathcal {M}}f={\mathcal {M}}_{1}(f)+{\mathcal {M}}_{2}(f)\), where, for all \(t>0\),
For \({\mathcal {M}}_{1}(f)\), we have the following
To estimate \({\mathcal {M}}_{2}(f)\), we use Hardy inequality and the uniform boundedness of \(\Gamma (t,s)\) as follows:
\(\square \)
Theorem 6.8
Let \(\sigma \ge 0\) and \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +4})\) The deterministic maximal regularity operator \({\mathcal {M}}\) extends to a bounded linear operator from \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\) to \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma +2}\).
Proof
The family \(\{\Gamma (t,s) \;;\; t>s\}\) has \(L^2 - L^2\) off-diagonal decay of any order by [10, Proposition 3.19]. The result thus follows from Propositions 6.7 and 6.5. \(\square \)
Remark 6.9
As in [8,9,10], we could also exploit \(L^{p}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay for \(p<2\) (and even \(p=1\) if the coefficients are real valued). This would give a wider range of p (and the full range \((1,\infty )\) if the coefficients are real valued). We leave this technical improvement for future work.
6.2 Stochastic time-independent maximal regularity in \(T^{\,\,p,2}_{\sigma }\)
In this subsection we consider the problem
where \(\sigma \ge 0\), and g is an adapted process in \(L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2} _{\sigma }(H))\) such that \(\nabla g \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2} _{\sigma }(H^{d}))\). Propositions 4.1 and 5.1(applied with the kernel \(K(t,s) = \exp ((t-s)\Delta )div\))) from [9] give that the mild solution defined by
satisfies
Remark 6.10
As in [9, Lemma 6.3], we could add initial data \(u_{0} \in L^{\frac{\beta }{2}}\) for appropriate values of \(\beta \). To do so, one needs to modify the proof of [9, Lemma 6.3] to control \(L^{\frac{1}{2}}\exp (-tL)u_{0}\) instead of \(\nabla \exp (-tL)u_{0}\).
6.3 Stochastic time-dependent maximal regularity in \(T^{p,2}_{\sigma }\).
We now combine the previous results to treat our main problem
We choose not to include initial data, but could do so as indicated in the above remark. To allow the approach used in Theorem 3.9 to work here, we need to make the following assumption on our \(L(t,\omega )=-div a(t,\omega ,.) \nabla \) operators:
Assumption 6.11
There exists \(C>0\) such that for all \(t \ge 0\), all \(\omega \in \Omega \), and all \(u \in W^{2,2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\),
Remark 6.12
Assumption 6.11 can be satisfied by coefficients that do not have any regularity in space or time. Indeed, it holds for all divergence free coefficients, i.e. coefficients such that \(\sum \limits _{i=1} ^{d} a_{i,j}\partial _{i} = 0\) (almost surely) in the sense of distributions for all \(j=1,..,d\). This was first remarked (to the best of our knowledge) in [39, Lemma 4.4]. Example of divergence free coefficients include, for \(d=3\), matrices for which columns are of the form curlF for some Lipschitz vector field F. Since Assumption 6.11 is also satisfied when the coefficients a are Lipschitz continuous in space (by the product rule and Riesz transform boundedness), we have that Assumption 6.11 holds for all coefficients of the form \(b+c\) where \(b \in L^{\infty }(\Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}_{+};W^{1,\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}))\) and \(c \in L^{\infty }(\Omega \times {{\mathbb {R}}}_{+} \times {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) is divergence free.
Lemma 6.13
Under Assumption (6.11), we have that \(\{tL(t,\omega )(I-t\Delta )^{-1} \;,\; t>0\}\) has \(L^{2}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay of any order, uniformly in \(\omega \in \Omega \).
Proof
Let \(E,F \subset {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d}\) be two Borel sets such that \(d(E,F)>0\). Let \(\eta \in C^{\infty }({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\) be such that \(\eta (x)=1\) for all \(x \in E\), \(\eta (x) = 0\) for all \(x \not \in {\widetilde{E}}=\{y \in {{\mathbb {R}}}^{d} \;;\; d(y,E) \le \frac{d(E,F)}{2}\}\), and \(\Vert \nabla \eta \Vert _{\infty } \le \frac{1}{d(E,F)}\). Note that Assumption 6.11 implies that
For \(u \in L^{2}({{\mathbb {R}}}^{d})\), \(t>0\), and \(\omega \in \Omega \), we thus have that
Since \(\{(I-t\Delta )^{-1} \;;\; t>0\}\) has \(L^{2}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay of any order (see e.g. [11] or just use standard heat kernel bounds), we only need to consider the second term. From Leibnitz rule, we have that, for all \(v \in D(L)\),
Therefore
Since \(\{t\Delta (I-t\Delta )^{-1} \;;\; t>0\}\) and \(\sqrt{t}\nabla (I-t\Delta )^{-1}\) have \(L^{2}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay of any order by [11, Proposition 5.2] (or just heat kernel estimates), and since one can assume that \(\frac{\sqrt{t}}{d(E,F)}\le 1\) without loss of generality (if \(\frac{\sqrt{t}}{d(E,F)}> 1\), the estimates follow directly from Assumption 6.11), we only need to consider the last term. Using Leibnitz rule again, we have that
which concludes the proof since \(\{(I-t\Delta )^{-1} \;;\; t>0\}\) and \(\sqrt{t}\nabla (I-t\Delta )^{-1}\) have \(L^{2}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay of any order by [11, Proposition 5.2] (or just standard heat kernel bounds). \(\square \)
We can now prove Theorem 6.2, which statement we recall here.
Theorem 6.14
Let \(\sigma \ge 0\) and \(p>\min (1,\frac{2d}{d+2\sigma +2})\). Let \(f \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma })\), and \(g \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma +1}(H))\) be an adapted process such that \(\nabla g \in L^{p}(\Omega ;T^{p,2}_{\sigma }(H^{d}))\). Under Assumption (6.11), we have that the solution process defined by
satisfies
Proof
As in the proof of Theorem 3.9, we decompose U as \(U= V_{1} + V_{2}\), where
Applying the deterministic estimate (Theorem 6.8) pathwise, along with the stochastic time-independent estimate from [9] (6.3), we have that
To estimate the last term, we use Lemma 6.13 and [50, Theorem 5.2] (where the case \(\sigma =0\) is treated but the proof extends verbatim to \(\sigma >0\)) to obtain
To conclude the proof, we use (6.3) again to evaluate the last term, and treat the remaining term through an application of Propositions 6.5 and 6.6. This is possible because \(\{\exp ((t-s)\Delta ) \;;\; t>s\}\) has \(L^{2}-L^{2}\) off-diagonal decay of any order, and because, by Itô isometry,
We thus have that
which concludes the proof. \(\square \)
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Portal, P., Veraar, M. Stochastic maximal regularity for rough time-dependent problems. Stoch PDE: Anal Comp 7, 541–597 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40072-019-00134-w
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- Stochastic PDEs
- Maximal regularity
- VMO coefficients
- Measurable coefficients
- Higher order equations
- Sobolev spaces
- \(A_p\)-weights