Strong and Weak Approximation of Semilinear Stochastic Evolution Equations
Strong and Weak Approximation of Semilinear Stochastic Evolution Equations
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10.1007/978-3-319-02231-4
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2013-11
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R. Kruse
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R. Kruse
This monograph grew out of my Ph. D. thesis, which I wrote at Bielefeld University between 2008 and 2012. Its main objective is the analysis of numerical methods, which approximate solutions to stochastic evolution equations (SEEq) on infinite dimensional state spaces. I therefore invite the reader to join me at the meeting point of several fascinating mathematical fields: numerical analysis, probability theory and stochastic analysis, PDE theory, and functional analysis. For me the study of numerical methods always has the convenient advantage that I can investigate my object of interest not only theoretically but also during computer experiments. In moments of doubts, a numerical simulation may motivate me to look harder for a theoretical proof or it helps avoid wasting time on a dead end if I am on the wrong track. Computer experiments also serve as a constant well of inspiration by making me stumbling over unexpected phenomena, whose understanding often raises interesting theoretical questions. To this respect numerical methods for SEEqs are a very grateful study object. Even without changing the initial parameters one may be able to see many different kinds behaviors just by the presence of the random forcing terms. A very interesting task is then to puzzle out which phenomena are due to the underlying stochastic evolution equation and which stems from the application of a numerical method and their inevitable errors.For this it is of course necessary to first have a closer look at stochastic evolution equations and their properties. As this book is mainly written from the viewpoint of a numerical analyst, we concentrate on basic questions which are important for the design and the behavior of numerical schemes. In particular, we study existence, uniqueness, and spatio-temporal regularity of solutions to SEEqs. After having made ourselves familiar with the object which we want to approximate, we next have to think about the aim of the approximation. Shall our numerical scheme give a good pathwise approximation of the solution or shall it just closely reproduce certain statistical properties? The two possibilities are related to the two different kinds of errors which we study in this monograph. On the one hand, there is the so-called strong error of convergence, which is measured in terms of the Lp-norm for random variables. This error is small if