Preprint des Projektes: SFB 701: Spektrale Strukturen und Topologische Methoden in der Mathematik - Projekt B3

Numerische Analyse äquivarianter Evolutionsgleichungen

11-031 Raphael Kruse.
Optimal error estimates of Galerkin finite element methods for stochastic partial differential equations with multiplicative noise


We consider Galerkin finite element methods for semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. We analyze the strong error of convergence for spatially semidiscrete approximations as well as a spatio-temporal discretization which is based on a linear implicit Euler-Maruyama method. In both cases we obtain optimal error estimates. The proofs are based on sharp integral versions of well-known error estimates for the corresponding deterministic linear homogeneous equation together with optimal regularity results for the mild solution of the SPDE. The results hold for different Galerkin methods such as the standard finite element method or spectral Galerkin approximations.