A support theorem for parabolic stochastic PDEs with nondegenerate Hölder diffusion coefficients

Abstract

In this paper we work with parabolic SPDEs of the form $$ \partial_t u(t,x)=\partial_x^2 u(t,x)+g(t,x,u)+σ(t,x,u)\dot{W}(t,x) $$ with Neumann boundary conditions, where $x\in[0,1]$, $\dot{W}(t,x)$ is the space-time white noise on $(t,x)\in[0,\infty)\times [0,1]$, $g$ is uniformly bounded, and the solution $u\in\mathbb{R}$ is real valued. The diffusion coefficient $σ$ is assumed to be uniformly elliptic but only Hölder continuous in $u$. Previously, support theorems for SPDEs have only been established assuming that $σ$ is Lipschitz continuous in $u$. We obtain new support theorems and small ball probabilities in this $σ$ Hölder continuous case via the recently established sharp two sided estimates of stochastic integrals.