Stochastic variational inequalities and applications to the total variation flow pertubed by linear multiplicative noise

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• Rckner, M (Universitt Bielefeld)
• Friday 14 September 2012, 09:50-10:40
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs)

We extend the approach of variational inequalities (VI) to partial differential equations (PDE) with singular coefficients, to the stochastic case. As a model case we concentrate on the parabolic 1-Laplace equation (a PDE with highly singular diffusivity) on a bounded convex domain in N-dimensional Euclidean space, perturbed by linear multiplicative noise, where the latter is given by a function valued (infinite dimensional) Wiener process. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for the corresponding stochastic variational inequality (SVI) in all space dimensions N and for any square-integrable initial condition, thus obtaining a stochastic version of the (minimal) total variation flow. One main tool to achieve this, is to transform the SVI and its approximating stochastic PDE into a deterministic VI, PDE respectively, with random coefficients, thus gaining sharper spatial regularity results for the solutions. We also prove finite time extinction of solutions with positive probability in up to N = 3 space dimensions.

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