Strong solvability and its failure for critical SDEs
Abstract
We revisit the construction of strong solutions to singular SDEs by compactness on Wiener space. For spatially varying diffusion coefficients, assuming sufficiently small form bounds on the drift and diffusion gradient, we use basic energy estimates and an extended compactness criterion for Wiener functionals to construct an approximation-independent stochastic flow of homeomorphisms. Both forward and inverse maps have local Sobolev moment bounds, and the resulting strong solutions are pathwise unique in a class of solutions satisfying a Krylov estimate. We also show that the endpoint critical condition b∈ L∞tLdx, together with div b=0 does not guarantee the existence of a strong solution. For every d≥2, we construct a SDE with a divergence-free drift in this class and an additive Brownian noise, started from the origin, has a weak solution unique in law, but no strong solution. The proof uses logarithmic rescaling to characterize strong solvability by whether the sample measures of an associated stationary diffusion are Dirac masses. Positivity of the top Lyapunov exponent, combined with random SRB theory, rules out this concentration and hence strong solvability.
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BibTeX
@misc{luo2026strong,
title = {{Strong solvability and its failure for critical SDEs}},
author = {Dejun Luo and Guohuan Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.41128},
eprint = {2610.41128},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41128},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Strong solvability and its failure for critical SDEs
AU - Dejun Luo
AU - Guohuan Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.41128
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41128
AB - We revisit the construction of strong solutions to singular SDEs by compactness on Wiener space. For spatially varying diffusion coefficients, assuming sufficiently small form bounds on the drift and diffusion gradient, we use basic energy estimates and an extended compactness criterion for Wiener functionals to construct an approximation-independent stochastic flow of homeomorphisms. Both forward and inverse maps have local Sobolev moment bounds, and the resulting strong solutions are pathwise unique in a class of solutions satisfying a Krylov estimate. We also show that the endpoint critical condition b∈ L^∞_tL^d_x, together with div b=0 does not guarantee the existence of a strong solution. For every d≥2, we construct a SDE with a divergence-free drift in this class and an additive Brownian noise, started from the origin, has a weak solution unique in law, but no strong solution. The proof uses logarithmic rescaling to characterize strong solvability by whether the sample measures of an associated stationary diffusion are Dirac masses. Positivity of the top Lyapunov exponent, combined with random SRB theory, rules out this concentration and hence strong solvability.
ER -