Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4592640 Journal of Functional Analysis 2009 30 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider a Kolmogorov operator L0 in a Hilbert space H, related to a stochastic PDE with a time-dependent singular quasi-dissipative drift , defined on a suitable space of regular functions. We show that L0 is essentially m-dissipative in the space Lp([0,T]×H;ν), p⩾1, where and the family (νt)t∈[0,T] is a solution of the Fokker–Planck equation given by L0. As a consequence, the closure of L0 generates a Markov C0-semigroup. We also prove uniqueness of solutions to the Fokker–Planck equation for singular drifts F. Applications to reaction–diffusion equations with time-dependent reaction term are presented. This result is a generalization of the finite-dimensional case considered in [V. Bogachev, G. Da Prato, M. Röckner, Existence of solutions to weak parabolic equations for measures, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 88 (2004) 753–774], [V. Bogachev, G. Da Prato, M. Röckner, On parabolic equations for measures, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 33 (3) (2008) 397–418], and [V. Bogachev, G. Da Prato, M. Röckner, W. Stannat, Uniqueness of solutions to weak parabolic equations for measures, Bull. London Math. Soc. 39 (2007) 631–640] to infinite dimensions.

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