Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/viewarticle.php?id=1933

Maximum Principle and Comparison Theorem for Quasi-linear Stochastic PDE's

Laurent Denis, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne
Anis Matoussi, Université du Maine
Lucretiu Stoica, University of Bucharest

Abstract

We prove a comparison theorem and maximum principle for a local solution of quasi-linear parabolic stochastic PDEs, similar to the well known results in the deterministic case. The proofs are based on a version of Ito's formula and estimates for the positive part of a local solution which is non-positive on the lateral boundary. Moreover we shortly indicate how these results generalize for Burgers type SPDEs

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Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/viewarticle.php?id=1933