Well-posedness of the obstacle problem for generalized Dean-Kawasaki equation

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author Liu, Ruoyang
Zhang, Rangrang
author_facet Liu, Ruoyang
Zhang, Rangrang
contents We investigate the obstacle problem for generalized Dean--Kawasaki equations driven by correlated conservative noise, establishing the existence, uniqueness, and $L^1$-stability of stochastic kinetic solutions. Our core strategy combines a kinetic characterization of the Skorokhod condition with a precise description of the reflection measure term associated with the obstacle, in which the barrier substitutes the solution. This formulation makes the reflection mechanism explicit at the kinetic level and yields a stable framework adapted to $L^1$ doubling of variables method. Consequently, under a merely continuous obstacle and the same structural assumptions as in the obstacle-free setting, we obtain well-posedness over the full porous-medium regime, covering degenerate diffusion and the critical square-root noise coefficient. This extends the existing theory of obstacle problems for stochastic partial differential equations to a class of degenerate equations with singular diffusion coefficients.
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spellingShingle Well-posedness of the obstacle problem for generalized Dean-Kawasaki equation
Liu, Ruoyang
Zhang, Rangrang
Probability
Analysis of PDEs
60H15, 35R60, 35K86, 35R35
We investigate the obstacle problem for generalized Dean--Kawasaki equations driven by correlated conservative noise, establishing the existence, uniqueness, and $L^1$-stability of stochastic kinetic solutions. Our core strategy combines a kinetic characterization of the Skorokhod condition with a precise description of the reflection measure term associated with the obstacle, in which the barrier substitutes the solution. This formulation makes the reflection mechanism explicit at the kinetic level and yields a stable framework adapted to $L^1$ doubling of variables method. Consequently, under a merely continuous obstacle and the same structural assumptions as in the obstacle-free setting, we obtain well-posedness over the full porous-medium regime, covering degenerate diffusion and the critical square-root noise coefficient. This extends the existing theory of obstacle problems for stochastic partial differential equations to a class of degenerate equations with singular diffusion coefficients.
title Well-posedness of the obstacle problem for generalized Dean-Kawasaki equation
topic Probability
Analysis of PDEs
60H15, 35R60, 35K86, 35R35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15501