Journal:Journal of Scientific Computing

Key Words:Stochastic Allen–Cahn equation · One-sided Lipschitz condition · Malliavin calculus · Strong and weak convergence rates · Spectral Galerkin method · Tamed exponential Euler method

Abstract:We discretize the stochastic Allen–Cahn equation with additive noise by means of a spectral Galerkin method in space and a tamed version of the exponential Euler method in time. The resulting error bounds are analyzed for the spatio-temporal full discretization in both strong and weak senses. Different from existing works, we develop a new and direct approach for the weak error analysis, which does not rely on the use of the associated Kolmogorov equation or Itô's formula and is therefore non-Markovian in nature. Such an approach thus has a potential to be applied to non-Markovian equations such as stochastic Volterra equations or other types of fractional SPDEs, which suffer from the lack of Kolmogorov equations. It turns out that the obtained weak convergence rates are, in both spatial and temporal direction, essentially twice as high as the strong convergence rates. Also, it is revealed how the weak convergence rates depend on the regularity of the noise. Numerical experiments are finally reported to confirm the theoretical conclusion.

Co-author:Gan Siqing, Wang Xiaojie

First Author:Cai Meng

Indexed by:Journal paper

Discipline:Natural Science

Volume:86

Translation or Not:no

Included Journals:SCI

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