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Chuchu Chen

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Ergodic numerical approximations for stochastic Maxwell equations

In this paper, we propose a novel kind of numerical approximations to inherit the ergodicity of stochastic Maxwell equations. The key to proving the ergodicity lies in the uniform regularity estimates of the numerical solutions with respect to time, which are established by analyzing some important physical quantities. By introducing an auxiliary process, we show that the mean-square convergence order of the ergodic discontinuous Galerkin full discretization is $\frac{1}{2}$ in the temporal direction and $\frac{1}{2}$ in the spatial direction, which provides the convergence order of the numerical invariant measure to the exact one in $L^2$-Wasserstein distance.

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Central limit theorem for full discretization of parabolic SPDE

In order to characterize the fluctuation between the ergodic limit and the time-averaging estimator of a full discretization in a quantitative way, we establish a central limit theorem for the full discretization of the parabolic stochastic partial differential equation. The theorem shows that the normalized time-averaging estimator converges to a normal distribution with the variance being the same as that of the continuous case, where the scale used for the normalization corresponds to the temporal strong convergence order of the considered full discretization. A key ingredient in the proof is to extract an appropriate martingale difference series sum from the normalized time-averaging estimator so that the convergence to the normal distribution of such a sum and the convergence to zero in probability of the remainder are well balanced. The main novelty of our method to balance the convergence lies in proposing an appropriately modified Poisson equation so as to possess the space-independent regularity estimates. As a byproduct, the full discretization is shown to fulfill the weak law of large numbers, namely, the time-averaging estimator converges to the ergodic limit in probability.

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Stochastic asymptotical regularization for linear inverse problems

We introduce Stochastic Asymptotical Regularization (SAR) methods for the uncertainty quantification of the stable approximate solution of ill-posed linear-operator equations, which are deterministic models for numerous inverse problems in science and engineering. We prove the regularizing properties of SAR with regard to mean-square convergence. We also show that SAR is an optimal-order regularization method for linear ill-posed problems provided that the terminating time of SAR is chosen according to the smoothness of the solution. This result is proven for both a priori and a posteriori stopping rules under general range-type source conditions. Furthermore, some converse results of SAR are verified. Two iterative schemes are developed for the numerical realization of SAR, and the convergence analyses of these two numerical schemes are also provided. A toy example and a real-world problem of biosensor tomography are studied to show the accuracy and the advantages of SAR: compared with the conventional deterministic regularization approaches for deterministic inverse problems, SAR can provide the uncertainty quantification of the quantity of interest, which can in turn be used to reveal and explicate the hidden information about real-world problems, usually obscured by the incomplete mathematical modeling and the ascendence of complex-structured noise.

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Large deviations principles of sample paths and invariant measures of numerical methods for parabolic SPDEs

For parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), we show that the numerical methods, including the spatial spectral Galerkin method and further the full discretization via the temporal accelerated exponential Euler method, satisfy the uniform sample path large deviations. Combining the exponential tail estimate of invariant measures, we establish the large deviations principles (LDPs) of invariant measures of these numerical methods. Based on the error estimate between the rate function of the considered numerical methods and that of the original equation, we prove that these numerical methods can weakly asymptotically preserve the LDPs of sample paths and invariant measures of the original equation. This work provides an approach to proving the weakly asymptotical preservation for the above two LDPs for SPDEs with small noise via numerical methods, by means of the minimization sequences.

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Influences of Numerical Discretizations on Hitting Probabilities for Linear Stochastic Parabolic System

This paper investigates the influences of standard numerical discretizations on hitting probabilities for linear stochastic parabolic system driven by space-time white noises. We establish lower and upper bounds for hitting probabilities of the associated numerical solutions of both temporal and spatial semi-discretizations in terms of Bessel-Riesz capacity and Hausdorff measure, respectively. Moreover, the critical dimensions of both temporal and spatial semi-discretizations turn out to be half of those of the exact solution. This reveals that for a large class of Borel sets $A$, the probability of the event that the paths of the numerical solution hit $A$ cannot converge to that of the exact solution.

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Weak intermittency and second moment bound of a fully discrete scheme for stochastic heat equation

In this paper, we first prove the weak intermittency, and in particular the sharp exponential order $Cλ^4t$ of the second moment of the exact solution of the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative noise and periodic boundary condition, where $λ>0$ denotes the level of the noise. In order to inherit numerically these intrinsic properties of the original equation, we introduce a fully discrete scheme, whose spatial direction is based on the finite difference method and temporal direction is based on the $θ$-scheme. We prove that the second moment of numerical solutions of both spatially semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes grows at least as $\exp\{Cλ^2t\}$ and at most as $\exp\{Cλ^4t\}$ for large $t$ under natural conditions, which implies the weak intermittency of these numerical solutions. Moreover, a renewal approach is applied to show that both of the numerical schemes could preserve the sharp exponential order $Cλ^4t$ of the second moment of the exact solution for large spatial partition number.

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A new efficient operator splitting method for stochastic Maxwell equations

This paper proposes and analyzes a new operator splitting method for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noise, which not only decomposes the original multi-dimensional system into some local one-dimensional subsystems, but also separates the deterministic and stochastic parts. This method is numerically efficient, and preserves the symplecticity, the multi-symplecticity as well as the growth rate of the averaged energy. A detailed $H^2$-regularity analysis of stochastic Maxwell equations is obtained, which is a crucial prerequisite of the error analysis. Under the regularity assumptions of the initial data and the noise, the convergence order one in mean square sense of the operator splitting method is established.

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A symplectic discontinuous Galerkin full discretization for stochastic Maxwell equations

This paper proposes a fully discrete method called the symplectic dG full discretization for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noises, based on a stochastic symplectic method in time and a discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method with the upwind fluxes in space. A priori $H^k$-regularity ($k\in\{1,2\}$) estimates for the solution of stochastic Maxwell equations are presented, which have not been reported before to the best of our knowledge. These $H^k$-regularities are vital to make the assumptions of the mean-square convergence analysis on the initial fields, the noise and the medium coefficients, but not on the solution itself. The convergence order of the symplectic dG full discretization is shown to be $k/2$ in the temporal direction and $k-1/2$ in the spatial direction. Meanwhile we reveal the small noise asymptotic behaviors of the exact and numerical solutions via the large deviation principle, and show that the fully discrete method preserves the divergence relations in a weak sense.

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Convergence of Density Approximations for Stochastic Heat Equation

This paper investigates the convergence of density approximations for stochastic heat equation in both uniform convergence topology and total variation distance. The convergence order of the densities in uniform convergence topology is shown to be exactly $1/2$ in the nonlinear case and nearly $1$ in the linear case. This result implies that the distributions of the approximations always converge to the distribution of the origin equation in total variation distance. As far as we know, this is the first result on the convergence of density approximations to the stochastic partial differential equation.

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Large deviations principles for symplectic discretizations of stochastic linear Schrödinger Equation

In this paper, we consider the large deviations principles (LDPs) for the stochastic linear Schrödinger equation and its symplectic discretizations. These numerical discretizations are the spatial semi-discretization based on spectral Galerkin method, and the further full discretizations with symplectic schemes in temporal direction. First, by means of the abstract Gärtner--Ellis theorem, we prove that the observable $B_T=\frac{u(T)}{T}$, $T>0$ of the exact solution $u$ is exponentially tight and satisfies an LDP on $L^2(0, π; \mathbb C)$. Then, we present the LDPs for both $\{B^M_T\}_{T>0}$ of the spatial discretization $\{u^M\}_{M\in\mathbb N}$ and $\{B^M_N\}_{N\in \mathbb N}$ of the full discretization $\{u^M_N\}_{M,N\in\mathbb N}$, where $B^M_T=\frac{u^M(T)}{T}$ and $B^M_N=\frac{u^M_N}{Nτ}$ are the discrete approximations of $B_T$. Further, we show that both the semi-discretization $\{u^M\}_{M\in \mathbb N}$ and the full discretization $\{u^M_N\}_{M,N\in \mathbb N}$ based on temporal symplectic schemes can weakly asymptotically preserve the LDP of $\{B_T\}_{T>0}$. These results show the ability of symplectic discretizations to preserve the LDP of the stochastic linear \xde equation, and first provide an effective approach to approximating the LDP rate function in infinite dimensional space based on the numerical discretizations.

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The probabilistic superiority of stochastic symplectic methods via large deviations principles

It is well known that symplectic methods have been rigorously shown to be superior to non-symplectic ones especially in long-time computation, when applied to deterministic Hamiltonian systems. In this paper, we attempt to study the probabilistic superiority of stochastic symplectic methods by means of the theory of large deviations. We propose the concept of asymptotical preservation of numerical methods for large deviations principles associated with the exact solutions of the general stochastic Hamiltonian systems. Concerning that the linear stochastic oscillator is one of the typical stochastic Hamiltonian systems, we take it as the test equation in this paper to obtain precise results about the rate functions of large deviations principles for both exact and numerical solutions. Based on the Gärtner--Ellis theorem, we first study the large deviations principles of the mean position and the mean velocity for both the exact solution and its numerical approximations. Then, we prove that stochastic symplectic methods asymptotically preserve these two large deviations principles, but non-symplectic ones do not. This indicates that stochastic symplectic methods are able to approximate well the exponential decay speed of the "hitting probability" of the mean position and mean velocity of the stochastic oscillator. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result about using large deviations principle to show the superiority of stochastic symplectic methods compared with non-symplectic ones in the existing literature.

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Natural gas shortages during the "coal-to-gas" transition in China have caused a large redistribution of air pollution

The Chinese "coal-to-gas" strategy aims at reducing coal consumption and related air pollution by promoting the use of clean and low carbon fuels in northern China. Here we show that on top of meteorological influences, these measures achieved an average decrease of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations of ~14% during winter 2017 in Beijing and surrounding areas (the "2+26" pilot cities). However, the localized air quality improvement was accompanied by a contemporaneous ~15% upsurge of PM2.5 concentrations over large areas in southern China. We find that the pollution transfer that resulted from a shift in emissions was caused by a natural gas shortage in the south due to the "coal-to-gas" transition in the north. The overall shortage of natural gas greatly jeopardized the air quality benefits of the "coal-to-gas" strategy in winter 2017 and reflects structural challenges and potential threats in China's clean energy transition.

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Drift-preserving numerical integrators for stochastic Hamiltonian systems

The paper deals with numerical discretizations of separable nonlinear Hamiltonian systems with additive noise. For such problems, the expected value of the total energy, along the exact solution, drifts linearly with time. We present and analyze a time integrator having the same property for all times. Furthermore, strong and weak convergence of the numerical scheme along with efficient multilevel Monte Carlo estimators are studied. Finally, extensive numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed numerical scheme.

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Energy-preserving multi-symplectic Runge-Kutta methods for Hamiltonian wave equations

It is well-known that a numerical method which is at the same time geometric structure-preserving and physical property-preserving cannot exist in general for Hamiltonian partial differential equations. In this paper, we present a novel class of parametric multi-symplectic Runge-Kutta methods for Hamiltonian wave equations, which can also conserve energy simultaneously in a weaker sense with a suitable parameter. The existence of such a parameter, which enforces the energy-preserving property, is proved under certain assumptions on the fixed step sizes and the fixed initial condition. We compare the proposed method with the classical multi-symplectic Runge-Kutta method in numerical experiments, which shows the remarkable energy-preserving property of the proposed method and illustrate the validity of theoretical results.

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Stochastic modified equations for symplectic methods applied to rough Hamiltonian systems based on the Wong--Zakai approximation

We investigate the stochastic modified equation which plays an important role in the stochastic backward error analysis for explaining the mathematical mechanism of a numerical method. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we construct a new type of stochastic modified equation, which is a perturbation of the Wong--Zakai approximation of the rough differential equation. For a symplectic method applied to a rough Hamiltonian system, the associated stochastic modified equation is proved to have a Hamiltonian formulation. Second, the pathwise convergence order of the truncated modified equation to the numerical method is obtained by techniques in the rough path theory. Third, if increments of noises are simulated by truncated random variables, we show that the one-step error can be made exponentially small with respect to the time step size. Numerical experiments verify our theoretical results.

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Approximation of Invariant Measures for Stochastic Differential Equations with Piecewise Continuous Arguments via Backward Euler Method

For the stochastic differential equation (SDE) which has piecewise continuous arguments (PCAs), is driven by multiplicative noises and its drift coefficients are dissipative, we show that the solution at integer time is a Markov chain and admits a unique invariant measure. In order to inherit numerically the invariant measure of SDE with PCAs, we apply the backward Euler (BE) method to the equation, and prove that the numerical solution at integer time is not only Markovian but also reproduces a unique numerical invariant measure. We present the time-independent weak error analysis for the method under certain hypothesis. Further, we show that the numerical invariant measure converges to the original one with order 1. Numerical experiments verify the theoretical analysis.

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Modified averaged vector field methods preserving multiple invariants for conservative stochastic differential equations

A novel class of conservative numerical methods for general conservative Stratonovich stochastic differential equations with multiple invariants is proposed and analyzed. These methods, which are called modified averaged vector field methods, are constructed by modifying the averaged vector field methods to preserve multiple invariants simultaneously. Based on the prior estimate for high order moments of the modification coefficient, the mean square convergence order $1$ of proposed methods is proved in the case of commutative noises. In addition, the effect of quadrature formula on the mean square convergence order and the preservation of invariants for the modified averaged vector field methods is considered. Numerical experiments are performed to verify the theoretical analyses and to show the superiority of the proposed methods in long time simulation.

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Runge-Kutta semidiscretizations for stochastic Maxwell equations with additive noise

The paper concerns semidiscretizations in time of stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noise. We show that the equations admit physical properties and mathematical structures, including regularity, energy and divergence evolution laws, and stochastic symplecticity, etc. In order to inherit the intrinsic properties of the original system, we introduce a general class of stochastic Runge-Kutta methods, and deduce the condition of symplecticity-preserving. By utilizing a priori estimates on numerical approximations and semigroup approach, we show that the methods, which are algebraically stable and coercive, are well-posed and convergent with order one in mean-square sense, which answers an open problem in [Chen and Hong, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2016] for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noise.

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