Abstract
In this paper, we study two terminal value problems (TVPs) for stochastic bi-parabolic equations perturbed by standard Brownian motion and fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter
Keywords
Introduction
Let
TVP for a bi-parabolic equation perturbed by standard Brownian motion. Our first problem is aimed to determine
TVP for a bi-parabolic equation driven by fractional Brownian motion. Our purpose in the second problem is to determine
In the previous two problems, the operator
Let us now introduce the connection between the bi-parabolic equation and the classical parabolic equation and the importance of TVP (or called backward) models. For the classical parabolic equation, the literature is traditional and pretty huge due to its theoretical interest. We can list here some works concerned with terminal value problems for classical parabolic equations [12,24,32]. It is the fact that those classical equations cannot describe accurately the procedure of heat conduction [15,20]. Therefore, some more flexible models including bi-parabolic equations have appeared to describe this phenomenon better [1,2,11,30,33]. For more details about successful applications of bi-parabolic equations, the readers can refer to [16]. As regards TVP’s perspective, this model plays a significant role in some practical areas, where we only have the final status
Recently, there are many works concerned with terminal value problems for bi-parabolic equations in the deterministic case, where
Although there have been many studies on TVPs for bi-parabolic equations in the deterministic case, to the best of our knowledge, TVPs for stochastic bi-parabolic equations driven by Wiener process and fractional Brownian motion have not been investigated in the literature, which are contained in the topic of inverse problems for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). This is the motivation leading to our study here. In what follows, we will list some works on inverse problems for SPDEs in recent years. Ibragimov, in [18], considered the problem of estimating coefficients for SPDEs driven by Wiener process. Q. Lü, in [25], studied two different inverse problems for stochastic parabolic equations driven by standard Brownian motion by establishing a global Carleman estimate. In [26], Q. Lü continued to consider the well-posedness of some linear and semilinear TVP for SPDEs with general filtration, without using the Martingale Representation Theorem. In 2017, Yuan and co-authors [37,38] solved some inverse source problems and TVPs for stochastic wave and parabolic equations. More recently, Xiaoli Feng [14] and Pingping Niu [28] investigated inverse problems for two stochastic fractional diffusion equations driven by standard and fractional Brownian motion separately.
The main contributions and difficulties of this paper are as follows. Due to the appearances of the stochastic integrals in the representations of the solutions to (1) and (2), the considered stochastic problems become more difficult than the deterministic cases and it is required to use stochastic analysis techniques to deal with. After stating the existence of the solution in
The rest of the present paper is organized as follows. We prepare some notations and preliminaries in Section 2. In Section 3, we state the existence of the solution of each TVP and then prove that it is instable, which is the reason making the ill-posedness. The regularized solutions for both considered problems are proposed in Section 4 by using the filter method. Furthermore, convergence rates of those approximate solutions are proved. Finally, some materials including the definitions of fBm, Wiener integral with respect to fBm, properties of the solution operators, etc., are recalled in Appendix A and Appendix B.
Preliminaries
Let σ be a non-negative number. By
Let
Next, we present the definitions of mild solutions to TVP (1), TVP (2). The readers can find in Appendix B the way we construct them. Furthermore, the definitions of well-posed and ill-posed problems are proposed. An H-valued process An H-valued process According to Jacques Hadamard [17], a problem is said to be well-posed if it satisfies the following conditions
it has a solution, the solution is unique, the solution is stable, i.e. it depends continuously on data. In the next section, we will show that the existence of the solutions of problems (1), (2) is guaranteed on (Mild solution of TVP (1)).
(Mild solution of TVP (2)).
(Well-posed and ill-posed problems).
Problems that are not well-posed in the sense of Hadamard are termed ill-posed.
The ill-posedness of two problems on
The existence of the solution of each TVP
In this subsection, we attempt to find the spaces where we obtain the existence of solutions to both TVPs. For two non-negative numbers a, b, let us introduce a pair of spaces
Before establishing the existence of solution to both TVPs, we prepare some necessary lemmas. The following ones will provide some needed properties for all terms in the right-hand sides of equations (5), (6).
Let us consider
Let
Given
Let
We begin with the proof for (7) and (8). Since
We next prove the two latter estimates (9) and (10). Firstly, it is obvious that
We begin with the proof of (11). By using the Itô isometry,
∙ Step 1. This step is aimed to prove estimate (13). By the representation (75), we have
In what follows we prove (15). From the representation (76), we can see
From the four above lemmas, we can state the existences of the solutions to TVPs (1) and (2) in the following theorems. Let Let For Using a similar way as in the proof of Theorem 3.1 and applying Lemma 3.1, Lemma 3.3, Lemma 3.4, one can easily obtain the two results of Theorem 3.2. □
The following pair of theorems will show that both TVPs we are studying are ill-posed on
Let Let We can give here an example for From Theorem 3.3 (res. Theorem 3.4), it is clear that the solution of TVP (1) (res. TVP (2)) does not depend continuously on the data. In other words, the solutions of two problems are unstable, which leads to their ill-posedness. We begin with the proof of (37). Since Next, we aim to prove (38). From the equation (5), we have the following representation for The estimate (40) can be proved easily by using a similar way as in the proof of (38). We note that the strategy here is to use (13) instead of (11). □
Here,
Physically, in most situations of reality, we cannot obtain exactly the data
Since TVP (1) is ill-posedness, it is required to establish an approximate solution (called regularized solution), denoted by
Regularization for TVP (1)
We now use a regularization method, named filter method (see [36]), to establish a regularized solution for TVP (1). From Section 3, we remark that the reason makes our problem be ill-posed is that both operators
Let Let both Let Let The strong assumption Step 1. In this step, our goal is to prove that if conditions (S1), (S2) hold, then we have
Step 2. In this step we prove the error estimate (47). Firstly, it is clear that
Now, we use the properties in (48) to estimate the first term Next, we estimate the last term
Assume further that (Example 2 for the filter kernels
Let us construct a regularized solution for TVP (2) as follows
Let both
Assume further that
Notice that the result in Theorem 4.2 needs a more strict assumption for the data than the result in Theorem 4.1. The first result only needs (44) holds for One can easily give some similar examples for the filter kernels
The strong assumption
Let us split
By similar estimates to those in (52) and (53), we have the following ones for two first terms in the right-hand side of (61)
Next, we estimate the last term in the right-hand side of (61). It is obvious that
Combining (61), (63), (64), (67), (69), we deduce that there exists a positive constant
For the last term
Footnotes
Acknowledgement
This research is funded by Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) under grant number B2020-18-03.
Appendix A.
In this appendix, we recall the definition of a one-dimensional fractional Brownian motion and then introduce the Wiener integral with respect to an fBm.
A one-dimensional fBm
By
Appendix B.
In this appendix we propose representations for the solutions to TVP (1), TVP (2), and some useful estimates for the solution operators.
We now find a representation for the solution of TVP (1) in the form
By a similar way as above, a representation for the solution of TVP (2) can be found as
Next, the following lemma presents upper bounds for the solution operators
