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SEMINARIO MATEMATICOdella

UNIVERSITÀ DI PADOVA

KRYSTYNA TWARDOWSKAAn approximation theorem of Wong-Zakai typefor stochastic Navier-Stokes equationsRendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova,tome 96 (1996), p. 15-36<http://www.numdam.org/item?id=RSMUP_1996__96__15_0>

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An Approximation Theorem of Wong-Zakai Typefor Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations.

KRYSTYNA TWARDOWSKA (*)

SUMMARY - We present an extension of the Wong-Zakai approximation theoremfor stochastic Navier-Stokes equations defined in abstract spaces and withsome Hilbert space valued disturbances given by the Wiener process.By ap-proximating these disturbances we obtain in the limit equation the It6 cor-rection term for the infinite dimensional case. Such form of the correctionterm was proved in the author’s papers [24] and [25], where the approxima-tion theorem for semilinear stochastic evolution equations in Hilbert spaceswas studied. A theorem of this type for nonlinear stochastic partial differen-tial equations, more exactly for the model considered by Pardoux ([19]) onecan find in [23].

0. - Introduction.

We consider a generalization of the Wong-Zakai approximation the-orem ([27]) for stochastic Navier-Stokes differential equations. Similarequations were already studied e.g. by Bensoussan ([2]), Bensoussanand Temam ([3]), Brzezniak and others ([4]), Capinski ([6]), Capinskiand Cutland ([7]), Fujita-Yashima ([10]). In the above papers mainlythe existence and uniqueness theorems were given.We are dealing with the approximation theorems of Wong-Zakai

type. A thorough discussion of generalizations of this theorem in finiteand infinite dimensions can be found in [25]. We only mention that for alinear equation in the infinite-dimensional case some generalizations

(*) Indirizzo dell’A.: Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw University of Tech-nology, Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland.

The research of the author was partially supported by KBN grant No. 2P301 052 03.

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are known, where the Wiener process is one-dimensional and the statespace is infinite-dimensional (see Aquistapace and Terreni ([l]), Brzez-niak and others ([5]), Gy6ngy ([12])). In [241 and [25] some extensions ofthe Wong-Zakai theorem to nonlinear functional stochastic differentialequations as well as to stochastic semilinear evolution equations in aHilbert space with a Hilbert space valued Wiener process are given.For the latter equations the unbounded operator is the infinitesimalgenerator of a semigroup of contraction type and the other operatorsare nonlinear and bounded. The Wong-Zakai approximation theoremfor stochastic nonlinear partial differential equations with unboundedmonotone and coercive operators defined in Gelfand triples is givenin [23]. The infinite-dimensional It6 correction term derived here com-ing from a Hilbert space valued Wiener process is exactly the same asin [9] and [23]-[25].

The author is grateful to the referee for helpful remarks which en-abled the author to improve this paper.

1. - Definitions and notation.

Let (S~, F, (Ft)t E [0, TI, P) be a filtered probability space on which anincreasing and right-continuous family o, Tj of sub-a-algebras of Fis defined such that Fo contains all P-null sets in F.

Let L(X, Y) denote the vector space of continuous linear operatorsfrom X to Y, with the operator norm 11 ~ , where X and Y are arbit-

rary Banach spaces (we put L(X) = L(X, X)); p ~ 1,denotes the usual Banach space of equivalence classes of random vari-ables with values in X which are p-integrable (essentially bounded for

with the norm ~~ ’ X) - We put LP (Q) = LP (Q; R).Moreover, 21 (X, Y) is the Banach space of nuclear operators from X

to Y with the trace norm ~~ ’ y) and 22 (X, Y) is the Hilbert space ofHilbert-Schmidt operators with the norm 11 - IIRs, where X and Y are ar-bitrary separable Hilbert spaces. 21 (X, Y) and 22 (X, Y) are some sub-spaces of L(X, Y).

Let H and K be real separable Hilbert spaces with scalar products( ’ , ’ )H , (’~ ’ )K and with orthonormal of H and K,respectively. We also consider a real separable Hilbert spaces V and Wwhich are continuously and densely embedded in the Hilbert space H.Moreover, the inclusion V -~ H is compact. Then, identifying H with itsdual space H * (by the scalar product in H) we have, denoting by V* andW* the dual spaces to V and W, respectively,

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The embeddings are continuous with dense ranges. The above spacesare endowed with the norms II. liB and 11 - llv., re-

spectively. The pairing between V and V* (as well as between W andW*) is denoted by ~ ~ , ~ ).We consider a K-valued Wiener process-(w(t))t E [ 0, T I , adapted to the family Ft, with nuclear covariance operatorJ. It is known ([8], Chapter 5) that there are real-valued independentWiener processes 1 on [0, T] such that

almost everywhere in (t, E [ o, T ] x S~, 1 is an orthonor-mal basis of eigenvectors of J corresponding to

i =

i Jfor = iv( t ) - k(s) and s t is the Kronecker delta). We put

Now we define the n-th polygonal approximations of the processes(w( t ) )t E ~ o, T ~ and (~,u m ( t ) )t E ~ o, T ~ , respectively, by

where for with 0 = to ... tn = T,

DEFINITION 1.1. Denote by 1P the a-algebra of sets on [0, T] x Qgenerated by all Ft-adapted and left continuous X-valued stochasticprocesses.

An X-valued stochastic process o, T ~ is called predictable if themapping ( t, is 0-measurable.

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2. - Description of the abstract model.

We consider the stochastic nonlinear differential equation

where is an H-valued stochastic process and

(Al) uo is an H-valued square integrable Fo-measurable random vari-able, that is, Fo , P; H).

For every n e N we consider the approximation equation

where is given by (1.2). Moreover, we consider the equation

with tr (JDB(t, K(t))) to be described later in this section.Weassume that the family of operators A( t ) e L( V, V*) defined for almostevery (a.e.) t e (0, T ) has the following properties:

(A2) growth restriction: there exists a constant B such that

(A3) coercivity: there exist constants a &#x3E; 0 and h, T such that

for every u e V and for a.e. t,

(A4) measurability: the mapping

is Lebesgue measurable for every u, v E V.

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The family of operators B(t, ~ ): V --~ ~ (K, H) defined for a.e.

t E ( o, T ) satisfies the following assumptions:

(A5) boundedness of B(t, ): there exists a constant L such that

(A6) the operator i.e., is of class C1 with boundedderivative (in the Hilbert-Schmidt topology) and this deriva-tive is assumed to be globally Lipschitzean,

(A7) the boundedness of DB(t, ~ ) is meant on V in the sense of thenorm in H: there exists a constant L such that

(A8) measurability: for every u e V the mapping

is Lebesgue measurable.

The bilinear continuous mapping G: V x V -~ W * satisfies the follow-ing assumptions:

(A9) (G(u, v), v) = 0 for every u E V and v E W,

(A10) boundedness: there exists a constant C such that

for all u, v E V.

Finally, we assume

(All) fe L~((0, T ) x Q; V* ) and f is nonanticipating.

Put

for every u e V.

REMARK 2.1. Assumption (A7) ensures the correctness of the defi-nition of DB(t, hl) o B(t, hl) E L(K, L(K, H)) for h, E H becauseDB(t, H) is bounded on V (in the Hilbert-Schmidttopology) in the norm of H.

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REMARK 2.2. We shall also use a weaker assumption than (A6) forthe operator B, that is, the following Lipschitz condition: for all h E H,k e K and N E R+ there exists a constant L = L(h, k, N) such that

for all u, v e V with llullv, N.

By assumption (A7) we may replace (A12) by

Now we observe ([9], [23]-[25]) that the Frechet derivativeDB( t, hl ) E L(V, L(K, H)) for hl e V and a.e. t.

Consider the composition DB(t, B(t, hl) E L(K, L(K, H)),where the Frechet derivative is computed for h, E H due to the exten-sion made in (A7). Let tp E L(K, L(K, H)) and define

for h, h’ E K. By the Riesz theorem, for every h1 E H there exists aunique operator E L(K) such that for all h, h’ E K,

Now, the covariance operator J has finite trace and therefore the

mapping

is a linear bounded functional on H. Therefore, using the Riesz theoremwe find a unique h 1 E H such that = h1 )H . Denote

We observe that (hl , h1 )H is the trace of the operator e L(K) but

tr (JW) is merely a symbol for hl . , :

.

DEFINITION 2.1. Suppose we are given an H-valued initial randomvariable uo and a K-valued Wiener process Suppose fur-ther that an H-valued stochastic process has the followingproperties:

(i) I is predictable,

(iii) there exists a set S~’ such that P( S~’ ) = 1 and for alland y E Y c H ( Y is an everywhere dense, in the

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strong topology, subset of H) equation (2.1) is satisfied in the followingsense:

An equivalent formulation of (2.4) is understood in W* (seee.g. [7]).

It is known ([14], [19]) that the above integrals are well defined.Moreover (see [14]),

where i E L(H, R) is the operator given by the formula yv = ( y, v)H ,vEH.

Then I is called a solution to (2.1) with initial conditionuo.

DEFINITION 2.2. Let n e N. We say that a mapping u~n~ : [0, T ] -~- H is a solution to equation (2.2n ) if u~n~ e L 2 ( o, T ; V) rl L °° (0, T ; H),

W*) and if equation (2.2n ) is satisfied for all 0 ~s t s T.

3. - Applications for Navier-Stokes equations.

Here we denote by o an open bounded set of 1E~2 with a regularboundary Let H~ (C~) be the Sobolev space of functions y which arein L2(ð) together with all their derivatives of order ; s; s &#x3E; 2/2 + 1.Further, HJ (ð) is the Hilbert subspace of H 1 (c9), made up of functionsvanishing on We also introduce the product Hilbert spaces (L2(ð»)2,(Ho (ð»)2, (Hs (ð»2.We consider the set of functions from ~°° with a compact sup-

port in n. Put

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and

the closure of

the closure of

the closure of

For y, z e H we put

For y, z E V we put

to obtain

These spaces have the structure of the Hilbert spaces induced by(L 2 (ð»2, (ð»2, (H8 (ð»2, that is

It is obvious that W, V and H have all properties from § 1.Let v &#x3E; 0 be fixed. We define the family of operators A( t ) E

E L(V, V*) by

for all y, z E V. Therefore, assumptions (A2), (A3) and (A4) (for a = v,A = 0, v = 0) are satisfied. Further we consider a trilinear form

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defined and continuous on V x V x W. We recall ([15], p. 67 and p. 71)that for a positive constant C1 we have

for all y, ~,u e V.It is also proved in [15], Lemma 6.2, p. 70, that there exists a positi-

ve constant C2 such that

for all v E (Ho (ð»2.Now we define a bilinear continuous operator G: V x V- W *

by

for all y, z e V and w E W.It is easily to check that assumptions (A9) and (A10) are satis-

fied.We consider the following stochastic Navier-Stokes equation

where u = u(t, x) is the velocity field of a fluid and p = p(t, x) is thepressure.

The reduction to the abstract form (2.1) is completely calssical(see [21]) and we omit it. Further, we shall understand equation (2.1) asthe above Navier-Stokes equation for

The uniqueness of solution is understood in the sense of trajecto-ries.

The existence and uniqueness of solution to (2.3) under assumptions(Al)-(A4), (A8)-(A12) follows from the following modification of Theo-rem 6.3 in [7]. Namely, we omit the assumption on the periodic bound-ary condition that we only need to prove the uniqueness of the solution.The uniqueness we obtain from [6].

For each n e N the existence and uniqueness of solution to (2.2n ) un-der assumptions (A1)-(A4), (A8)-(A12) follows e.g. from a slight modifi-cation of the existence and uniqueness theorems in [15].

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4. - Auxiliary lemmas.

Let us denote by W. = Vm = Hm = V~ = Wm the vector spacespanned by the vectors 11, ..., Lm and let P~ E L(H, Hm) be the orthogo-nal projection. We recall is an orthonormal base of H. Weassume that ln e W for every n e N. Otherwise the equalities

would not be satisfied. We introduce in Hm the norm

for u = (ul , ... , and the usual scalar product ( ~ , ~ ). We extend Pmto an operator V* 2013~ VQ by

Analogously we define Pm u for u E W * .We denote by Km the vector space spanned by the vectors

... , km . o Let II m E L(K, Km) be the orthogonal projection.Now, we define the families of operators A m ( t ): Vm - VQ by

Let wm (t) be the Wiener process with values in defined by

Clearly, it can be represented by formula (1.1). Moreover, we put

and

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Now, we consider the following stochastic differential equation oflt6 type in the space ~’~ for the i-th coordinate of a process =

where vm =1, ..., m is the matrix representation of elementsof and is the i-th coefficient of thevector

Equation (4.4) is a finite dimensional stochastic differential equa-tion. Therefore, from the slight modification of the existence and

uniqueness theorems, e.g. in [2], [3], we observe that under our assump-tions equation (4.4) has exactly one solution E Hm for any m == 1, 2, ... such that

For every n E N, we also consider the approximation equation

where w~n~ ( t ) is given by (1.3). We observe that dw’) (t) = dt on

every interval ( ti 1, so equations (4.5~) are of deterministic naturefor almost every o e S~ .

Let us start from

LEMMA 4.1. Let u(t) be the solutions to equations (4.4) acnd(2.3), respectively, under assumptions (Al)-(A4), (A8)-(Al2). Then for

T], 0 T ~ , we have

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PROOF. From the proof of the uniqueness of the solution to equa-tion of the type (2.3), see Theorem 3.2 in [6], taking = v’~ ( t ) andu2 ( t ) = û( t) we immediately deduce that v m ( t ) --~ u( t ) in the sense of(4.6).

Further, we have

LEMMA 4.2. The correction term

in equation (4.4) is the result of applying the projection operators Pmacnd 17m to operator B(t, .) and to the Wiener process (w(t»t e [0, T~ in theconstruction of the term ( 1 /2) tr (JDB(t, û(t»B(t, û(t»), that is,

converges to tr (JDB(t, û(t»B(t, u(t))) weakly in H.

e 22 (Km, H). The restriction mapping we understand in the followingsense

Now we consider the Frechet derivative of u ) for u e Hm,that is, and DBm (t, u)(x) E

for x E Hm . Now we consider the composition

Then DBm(t, U)(X) e 22(Km’ Hm) is given by the matrix

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We put

Let

and for

Omitting X and Y in the last sum we obtain the matrix

Consider the trace

where k = 1, ... , m, is the restriction of the covariance opera-tor J to R~ (= We rewrite it in the form of the inner product oftwo vectors in

Taking into account the result of Lemma 4.1, we observe that thefirst vector is exactly the correction term hl obtained in Section 2. Re-placing B by Bm and w by w m we repeated step by step the constructionof hi from Section 2. Therefore, we obtained the finite-dimensionalform of the correction term that converges by the above construction totr (JDB(t, i(t)) B(t, i(t))) as m --~ ~ . Thus we have proved (4.7).

REMARK 4.1. Note that the definition of the correction term in thefinite-dimensional case depends on the restriction to Rm of the operatorJ, i.e. it depends on ..., Am. This is because of our definition of

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(see (*) in § 1). Moreover, since

taking in particular Y = DB( t, hl ) B( t, hl ) we get

Thus in the infinite-dimensional case we have the same situationwith the term tr (JDB(t, hl) B(t, which depends on the covarianceoperator J, i.e. it depends on i (see (***)).We also have

LEMMA 4.3. Let ), Gm(.) acnd Bm(t, .) be given by (4.1)-(4.3), respectively, under assumptions (Al)-(A4), (A8)-(A12). Let

given by ( 1.3). Assume that v~n~ ( t ) and u~n~ ( t ) are solutions toequations (4.5~) and (2.2n), respectively. Then, for every t E [ o, T ],0 T 00, we have

where is an arbitrary increasing sequence depending on m.

PROOF. For every ?~ &#x3E; 0 we choose an arbitrary increasing se-

quence ln(m)l depending on m, that is, n = is a function of m.Then and are arbitrary subsequences of and

00

vm) 1, respectively. Let us take Y = U Hm. It is obvious that for(n m= 1

every y e Y there exists mo (y) such that for every mo (y) we havey e Hm. Moreover,

if for m ~ mo ( y ) we take y E Hm . We have the same equalities for B’~and G’n .

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Now we set

We compute on ti ], for almost every e Q,

where and a ~n~m~~ are some constant derivatives on ( ti 1, of

2v~n~m~~ ( t ) and 2v~n~m~~ ( t ), respectively.We multiply the above equatlity by and take the sum over

j = 1, 2, .... We recall ([15], p. 71) that after the simple computationswe obtain

and

We obtain

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We replace and get

Let Cl , ... , C7 be some constants. From (3.1), (3.2) and the inequality

which we will use in its equivalent form a&#x26;~~c~+(4~) ~&#x26;~, wehave

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From (A5), (A3), (4.9) and (A12’) we get (further we shall use again the~ IIH", _ 11 -

From (A5) we obtain

for a constant Cm , can be estimated by its expectedvalue.

Now taking the mathematical expectation, applying the above pro-cedure to all intervals (~-1, and using the Gronwall lemma con-

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clude the proof. More exactly, we compute on the whole interval

as m --~ ~ , where

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and

Further, we have on [0, T ]

Finally, we get on the whole interval [0, T ]

where C£ - 0 We estimate E and E (s) 1/2 ] by a constant

s s

similarly as in [19], p.112. Using the Gronwall lemma we obtain

(4.8).

5. - Approximation theorem.

Let us start from a modification of the Wong-Zakai approximationtheorem for equations in

REMARK 5.1. We observe that we can modify the finite-dimension-al version of the Wong-Zakai theorem in [13], Chapter VI, § 7, Theorem7.2. Namely, we first change the assumption about the r-dimensional

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Wiener process appearing as the disturbance in this theorem. We nowassume that the Wiener process has different variances in different di-

rections, that is, it satisfies relatoin (*) of the present paper. From thisit follows that the expression c2~ defined by (7.6) in [13], Chapter VI,§ 7, has now the form:

Therefore, the correction term is now of the form (**) of the present pa-per. With w(t), cij and the correction term defined in this way, we re-peat the proof of the Wong-Zakai approximation theorem in [13].We shall prove the following

THEOREM 5.1. Let and (t) be solutions to equations (2.3)and (2.2n), respectively. Assume that assumptions (Al)-(All) are sat-isfied. Take approximations w(n) (t) of the Wiener process w(t) given by(1.2). Then, for each t E [0, T], 0 T 00,

PROOF. We have

Observe that

because by the definitions and by Lemma 4.2 we can usethe modified finite-dimensional version of the Wong-Zakai approxima-tion theorem (see Remark 5.1) to obtain (5.3). Indeed, our equation isnow in and assumptions in [13], namely that the diffusion term Q isin Cb and the drift term b is in Cb , can be used in the proof in [13] in aweaker form, just as our weaker assumptions, that is, the Lipschitzconditions on b and a’ instead of higher classes of continuity of band a ’ .

More exactly, for every E &#x3E; 0 and every m &#x3E; 0 we choose n(m) suchthat for n(m) we have from (5.3) the convergence of (t)to v m (t).

Now we choose mo such that for every 7% b mo we have by Lemma4.1 the convergence of to û(t) and we put an appropriate n( m ) to

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get the previous convergence. Now from Lemma 4.3 we obtain forevery m ; mo the convergence of ( t ) to ( t ), which completesthe proof.

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