GENERALIZED SOLUTIONS OF THE CAUCHY PROBLEM FOR SYSTEMS OF NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS AND DIFFUSION PROCESSES

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to construct both strong and weak solutions (in certain functional classes) of the Cauchy problem for a class of systems of nonlinear parabolic equations via a unified stochastic approach. To this end we give a stochastic interpretation of such a system, treating it as a version of the backward Kolmogorov equation for a two-component Markov process with coefficients depending on the distribution of its first component. To extend this approach and apply it to the construction of a generalized solution of a system of nonlinear parabolic equations, we use results from Kunita's theory of stochastic flows.