ABSTRACT
In this article, we obtain a central limit theorem and prove a moderate deviation principle for stochastic reaction-diffusion systems with multiplicative noise and non-Lipschitz reaction term.
1. Introduction
Consider the following stochastic reaction-diffusion system: (1) (1) with , where is a bounded open set of , with , having a boundary.
For each , where the coefficients are taken in , the matrices are non-negative and symmetric for each and fulfil a uniform ellipticity condition, i.e. for some positive constants , and coefficients are continuous. The operators act on the boundary of and are assumed to be either of Dirichlet or of co-normal type. The linear operators are bounded on and may be equal to the identity operator if d = 1. Let be a probability space with an increasing family of the sub-σ-fields of satisfying the usual conditions. The noises are independent cylindrical Wiener processes on .
Moderate deviations trace back to Cramér (Citation1938) established expansions of tail probabilities about sums of independent random variables defying the normal distribution. Comparing to large deviation, which offers a accurate estimate associated with the law of large number, moderate deviation is commonly applied to provide further estimates concerning the central limit theorem and the law of iterated logarithm.
Let be the solution of a small perturbation of the equation of (Equation1(1) (1) ), that is (2) (2) The solution of Equation (Equation2(2) (2) ) will tend to the solution, denoted by , of the following deterministic equation, as , (3) (3) Assume that the mapping is locally Lipschitz-continuous and has polynomial growth. The mapping is globally Lipschitz, without any assumption of boundedness and non-degeneracy. The existence and uniqueness of the solution for Equation (Equation1(1) (1) ) is proved in Cerrai (Citation2003). The existence and uniqueness of the solutions for Equation (Equation2(2) (2) ) and Equation (Equation3(3) (3) ) can be established as that of Equation (Equation1(1) (1) ). In Cerrai and Röckner (Citation2004), Cerrai and Röckner had shown that the process obeys a large deviation principle (abbreviated LDP) in , for any T>0. Also, they established the large deviations for invariant measures for in Cerrai and Röckner (Citation2005). Based on these works, in this paper, we then consider the precise deviations of from as in the following way: the asymptotic behaviour of the trajectory We emphasize that
it is related to central limit theorem (abbreviated CLT) when , see Theorem 3.4 below;
it provides moderate deviation principle (MDP for short, cf. Dembo & Zeitouni, Citation2000) when is the deviation scale verifying (4) (4) see Theorem 4.3 below. In the sequel, we assume that (Equation4(4) (4) ) is in place.
Moderate deviation is an intermediate estimation between the large deviation with deviation scale and the CLT with . The MDP provides rates of convergence and a way to construct asymptotic confidence interval, see Gao and Zhao (Citation2011) and the references therein. In recent years, there is an increasing interest on the study of MDP. For independent and identically distributed random sequences, Chen (Citation1990, Citation1991, Citation1993) and Ledoux (Citation1992) found the necessary and sufficient conditions for MDP. Moderate deviation was discussed by Djellout and Guillin (Citation2001), Gao (Citation1996, Citation2003), and Wu (Citation1995, Citation1999) for Markov processes as well as Guillin and Liptser (Citation2006) for diffusion processes. For mean field interacting particle models, MDP was worked by Douc et al. (Citation2001). Wang and Zhang (Citation2015) and Wang et al. (Citation2015) discussed moderate deviations for stochastic reaction-diffusion equation and 2D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations, respectively. Recently, there are several works on moderate deviations for SPDEs with jump, see Budhiraja et al. (Citation2016) and Dong et al. (Citation2017).
In this paper, we prove a CLT and establish a MDP for the class of reaction-diffusion systems of the form (Equation1(1) (1) ). Since we consider the solutions in spaces of continuous functions and there is no Itô formula, we will work directly on heat kernels. Also, because of the weak assumptions on drift and diffusion coefficients, we have to deal with the estimates on the solutions delicately.
The organization of this paper is as follows. The assumptions will be given in Section 2. Section 3 is devoted to prove the CLT. In Section 4, we establish the MDP.
Throughout this paper, c and are positive constants independent of ε and those values may be different from line to line.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we formulate the equation and state the precise conditions on the coefficients.
Let H be the separable Hilbert space endowed with the scalar product . We shall denote by A the realization in H of the differential operator , endowed with the boundary conditions , i.e. , . Set and coincides with or .
We set and define . Denoted by C the realization in H of the second-order elliptic operator , endowed with the boundary conditions . In Davies (Citation1989), it is proved that C is a non-positive and self-adjoint operator which generates an analytic semigroup with dense domain given by , where is the realization in of with the boundary condition . Moreover, denoted by the realization of the operator in for any . We see that and denote all of them by L if there is no confusion.
The covariance operator Q of the Wiener process is a positive symmetric, trace class operator on H. Let . Then is a Hilbert space with the inner product (5) (5) Let denote the norm in . Clearly, the embedding of in H is Hilbert-Schmidt, since Q is a trace class operator. Let denote the space of linear operators S such that is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator from H to H. Define the norm on the space by . Set the space of all bounded linear operators from into H and denote by its norm.
The hypothesis concerns the eigenvalues of A:
Hypothesis 2.1
The complete orthonormal system of H which diagonalizes A is equi-bounded in the sup-norm.
Assume that is a bounded linear operator which satisfies:
Hypothesis 2.2
Q is non-negative and diagonal with respect to the complete orthonormal basis which diagonalizes A, with eigenvalues . Moreover, if , there exists ϱ ( if d = 2 and if d>2) such that .
The assumptions on the coefficients f and g are as follows.
Hypothesis 2.3
The mapping is continuous and is Lipschitz-continuous, uniformly with respect to and t in bounded sets of , i.e., for some .
We set for any and , and for , define for any the composition operator by setting, for any ,
Hypothesis 2.4
The mapping is locally Lipschitz-continuous, locally uniformly for , and there exists and such that
There exists such that, for each , and for some
One of the following two conditions holds:
, where is as in Hypothesis 2.4 (1) and ;
there exists some a>0, and such that, for each and for some ,
Then the system (Equation1(1) (1) ) can be rewritten in the following type: (6) (6) where the operator A can be written as A = C + L.
3. Central limit theorem
In this section, our task is to establish the CLT. We will need some results in Cerrai (Citation2003), and we list them here for the convenience of readers.
Proposition 3.1
Under Hypotheses 2.1–2.3 on the coefficients, define the following mappings (7) (7) (8) (8) Then, (1) (the inequality (3.7) in Cerrai, Citation2003) for any and (9) (9) where is any constant;
(2) (the inequality (4.6) in Cerrai, Citation2003) there exists such that γ maps into itself for any and for any (10) (10) for some continuous increasing function such that .
Proposition 3.2
Theorem 5.3 in Cerrai, Citation2003
Under Hypotheses 2.1–2.4 on the coefficients, for any and for any and T>0 such a problem admits a unique mild solution in which is the Banach space of all adapted processes u in , such that , where . Moreover, (11) (11)
Similarly as the proof of (Equation11(11) (11) ), under Hypotheses 2.1–2.4, we have . The following result is concerned with the convergence of as .
Proposition 3.3
Under Hypotheses 2.1–2.4, there exists a constant such that, for all , (12) (12)
Proof.
Define (13) (13) It is immediate to check that is Lipschitz-continuous in E. Then if we consider (14) (14) and (15) (15) there exist unique mild solutions and in for Equations (Equation14(14) (14) ) and (Equation15(15) (15) ), respectively. Define So, From (Equation9(9) (9) ), (16) (16) and one obtains in view of the Lipschitz continuity of .
If we take such that , this yields Gronwall's inequality implies Therefore, due to (Equation10(10) (10) ), Next we can repeat the same arguments in the intervals , and so on and for any T>s, (17) (17) with the help of (Equation11(11) (11) ) for and .
Define and . We can see that is non-decreasing and denote . So (Equation17(17) (17) ) with p = 1 yields i.e. . Thus, Fatou's lemma implies (18) (18) which completes the proof.
Let be the solution of the following SPDE: with initial value . Let be the solution of the following SPDE: where we need an additional assumption about .
Hypothesis 3.1
is Fréchet derivative of F w.r.t. the second variable satisfying for some positive , and there exists such that, for each and .
We now come to the main result of this section.
Theorem 3.4
Central Limit Theorem
Under Hypotheses 2.1–3.1, converges to in the space in probability, that is, there exists a constant such that, for all , (19) (19)
Proof.
Define and we see that is Lipschitz-continuous in E. Then if we consider and There exists unique mild solutions and in , respectively. Define the following mappings Then Due to inequality (Equation16(16) (16) ), one obtains If we take such that , this yields (20) (20) Consider There exists a random field taking values in such that Then, In view of last inequality, the Lipschitz continuity of and Hypothesis 3.1, it yields (21) (21) Inequalities (Equation20(20) (20) ), (Equation21(21) (21) ) and Gronwall's inequality implies
Furthermore, according to inequality (Equation17(17) (17) ). Also, is finitely controlled by some positive constant M from .
Then, we take such that , (22) (22) Then we can repeat the same arguments in the intervals , and so on and for any T>s, (23) (23) with the help of (Equation11(11) (11) ).
Similarly as inequality (Equation18(18) (18) ) replacing with , the proof is completed.
4. Moderate deviations
Let . Then satisfies the following SPDE: (24) (24) with initial value . This equation admits a unique solution , where stands for the solution functional from into .
In this part, we will prove that satisfies an LDP on with satisfying (Equation4(4) (4) ). This special type of LDP is usually called the MDP of (cf. Dembo & Zeitouni, Citation2000).
Firstly we recall the general criteria for an LDP given in Budhiraja and Dupuis (Citation2000). Let be a Polish space with the Borel σ-field .
Definition 4.1
Rate function
A function is called a rate function on , if for each , the level set is a compact subset of .
Definition 4.2
LDP
Let I be a rate function on . A family of -valued random elements is said to satisfy the LDP on with rate function I, if the following two conditions hold.
(Large deviation upper bound) For each closed subset F of ,
(Large deviation lower bound) For each open subset G of ,
Next, we introduce the Skeleton Equations. The Cameron-Martin space associated with the Wiener process is given by The space is a Hilbert space with inner product Let denote the class of -valued -predictable processes ϕ belonging to a.s.. Let . The set endowed with the weak topology is a Polish space. Define .
For any , consider the deterministic equation (25) (25) with initial value and for any , consider (26) (26) Now we are ready to state the second main result.
Theorem 4.3
Moderate Deviation Principle
Under Hypotheses 2.1–3.1, obeys an LDP on with speed and with rate function I given by with the convention .
We will adopt the following weak convergence method to prove the MDP.
Theorem 4.4
Budhiraja & Dupuis, Citation2000
For , let be a measurable mapping from into . Let . Suppose that satisfies the following assumptions: there exists a measurable map such that
for every and any family satisfying that converge in distribution as -valued random elements to h as , converges in distribution to as ;
for every , the set is a compact subset of .
Then the family satisfies an LDP in with the rate function I given by with the convention .
For , set and define satisfying To prove Theorem 4.3, we only need to verify the following two propositions according to Theorem 4.4.
Proposition 4.5
Under the same conditions as Theorem 4.3, for every fixed , let be such that converges in distribution to ϕ as . Then in as .
Proposition 4.6
Under the same conditions as Theorem 4.3, for every positive number , the family is compact in .
We start to prove Proposition 4.5 and we need the following lemma and inequalities.
Lemma 4.1
Under the same conditions as Theorem 4.3, for any and , (Equation25(25) (25) ) and (Equation26(26) (26) ) replacing F and with and respectively, admit the unique solutions, respectively, , in . Moreover, for any N>0 and , there exist constants and such that for any , , (27) (27) and (28) (28)
Proof.
Similarly as Theorem 2.4 in Chueshov and Millet (Citation2010), the existence and uniqueness of the solution can be proved. Here, we will prove inequalities (Equation27(27) (27) ) and (Equation28(28) (28) ).
Define the following mappings Then In view of the Lipschitz continuity of and inequality (Equation16(16) (16) ), one obtains If we take such that , this yields Gronwall's inequality implies Then, Furthermore, as similar proof as Theorem 4.2 in Cerrai (Citation2003); due to (4.6) and the proof in Theorem 5.3 in Cerrai (Citation2003), it yields (29) (29) Therefore, for some constant , Next we can repeat the same arguments in the intervals , and so on and for any T>s, there exists some constant , (30) (30) Here choosing ε small enough, we get (Equation27(27) (27) ).
The proof of (Equation28(28) (28) ) is very similar to that of (Equation27(27) (27) ), we omit it here. The proof of this lemma is complete.
Under the conditions of Lemma 4.1, we have the following three inequalities. Let . Then, from inequality (Equation29(29) (29) ), (31) (31) (32) (32) and (33) (33)
Proof of Proposition 4.5.
Let , where is the solution of (Equation25(25) (25) ) replaced h by ϕ. Then and , where , satisfy, respectively, with initial value and with initial value . Define the following mappings Then Thus, There exists a random field taking values in such that which yields We take such that . One obtains Gronwall's inequality implies Thus, With the help of inequalities (Equation30(30) (30) )–(Equation33(33) (33) ), we get (34) (34) Then we can repeat the same arguments in the intervals , and so on and for any T>s, (35) (35) Furthermore, by Chebysev inequality and (Equation30(30) (30) ), (36) (36) Finally, Taking and for , . Then, (37) (37) Similarly as inequality (Equation18(18) (18) ), replacing with , the proof of the proposition is completed.
Proof of Proposition 4.6
The proof is similar as that of Proposition 4.5 and easier. The proof will be omitted.
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