On the Hölder Regularity of a Linear Stochastic Partial-Integro-Differential Equation with Memory

Abstract

AbstractIn light of recent work on particles fluctuating in linear viscoelastic fluids, we study a linear stochastic partial-integro-differential equation with memory that is driven by a stationary noise on a bounded, smooth domain. Using the framework of generalized stationary solutions introduced in McKinley and Nguyen (SIAM J Math Anal 50(5):5119–5160, 2018), we provide conditions on the differential operator and the noise to obtain the existence as well as Hölder regularity of the stationary solutions for the concerned equation. As an application of the regularity results, we compare to analogous classical results for the stochastic heat equation. When the 1d stochastic heat equation is driven by white noise, solutions are continuous with space and time regularity that is Hölder$$(1/2-\epsilon )$$(1/2-ϵ)and$$(1/4-\epsilon )$$(1/4-ϵ)respectively. When driven by colored-in-space noise, solutions can have a range of regularity properties depending on the structure of the noise. Here, we show that the particular form of colored-in-time memory that arises in viscoelastic diffusion applications, satisfying what is called the Fluctuation–Dissipation relationship, yields sample paths that are Hölder$$(1/2-\epsilon )$$(1/2-ϵ)and$$(1/2-\epsilon )$$(1/2-ϵ)in space and time.