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2012-10-08Typ
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ETH Bibliographie
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Abstract
The celebrated H ormander condition is a sucient (and nearly necessary) condition for a second-order linear Kolmogorov partial dierential equation (PDE) with smooth coecients to be hypoelliptic. As a consequence, the solutions of Kolmogorov PDEs are smooth at all positive times if the coecients of the PDE are smooth and satisfy H ormander's condition even if the initial function is only continuous but not dierentiable. First-order linear Kolmogorov PDEs with smooth coecients do not have this smoothing eect but at least preserve regularity in the sense that solutions are smooth if their initial functions are smooth. In this article, we consider the intermediate regime of non-hypoelliptic second-order Kolmogorov PDEs with smooth coecients. The main observation of this article is that there exist counterexamples to regularity preservation in that case. More precisely, we give an example of a second-order linear Kolmogorov PDE with globally bounded and smooth coecients and a smooth initial function with compact support such that the unique globally bounded viscosity solution of the PDE is not even locally H older continuous and, thereby, we disprove the existence of globally bounded classical solutions of this PDE. From the perspective of probability theory, this observation has the consequence that there exists a stochastic dierential equation (SDE) with globally bounded and smooth coecients and a smooth function with compact support which is mapped by the transition semigroup of the SDE to a non-locally H older continuous function. In other words, degenerate noise can have a roughening eect. A further implication of this loss of regularity phenomenon is that numerical approximations may convergence slower than any arbitrarily small polynomial rate of convergence to the true solution of the SDE. More precisely, we prove for an example SDE with globally bounded and smooth coecients that the standard Euler approximations converge to the exact solution of the SDE in the strong and numerically weak sense slower than any arbitrarily small polynomial rate of convergence. Mehr anzeigen
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Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät fuer MathematikOrganisationseinheit
03951 - Jentzen, Arnulf (ehemalig) / Jentzen, Arnulf (former)
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Lecture at the Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät fuer Mathematik on 8 October 2012.ETH Bibliographie
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