Large deviations for locally monotone stochastic partial differential equations driven by L\'evy noise

Abstract

We establish a Freidlin-Wentzell type large deviation principle (LDP) for a class of stochastic partial differential equations with locally monotone coefficients driven by L\'evy noise. Our results essentially improve a recent work on this topic (Bernoulli, 2018) by the second named author of this paper and his collaborator, because we drop the compactness embedding assumptions, and we also make the conditions for the coefficient of the noise term more specific and weaker. To obtain our results, we utilize an improved sufficient criteria of Budhiraja, Chen, Dupuis, and Maroulas for functions of Poisson random measures, and the techniques introduced by the first and second named authors of this paper in \cite{WZSIAM} play important roles. As an application, for the first time, the Freidlin-Wentzell type LDPs for many SPDEs driven by L\'evy noise in unbounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^d$, which are generally lack of compactness embeddings properties, are achieved, like e.g., stochastic $p$-Laplace equation, stochastic Burgers-type equations, stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equations, stochastic equations of non-Newtonian fluids, etc.