On the well-posedness of SPDEs with singular drift in divergence form

Abstract

We prove existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for a class of second-order stochastic PDEs with multiplicative Wiener noise and drift of the form $\operatorname{div} \gamma(\nabla \cdot)$, where $\gamma$ is a maximal monotone graph in $\mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^n$ obtained as the subdifferential of a convex function satisfying very mild assumptions on its behavior at infinity. The well-posedness result complements the corresponding one in our recent work arXiv:1612.08260 where, under the additional assumption that $\gamma$ is single-valued, a solution with better integrability and regularity properties is constructed. The proof given here, however, is self-contained.