Malliavin calculus and densities for singular stochastic partial differential equations

Abstract

We study Malliavin differentiability of solutions to sub-critical singular parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) and we prove the existence of densities for a class of singular SPDEs. Both of these results are implemented in the setting of regularity structures. For this we construct renormalized models in situations where some of the driving noises are replaced by deterministic Cameron–Martin functions, and we show Lipschitz continuity of these models with respect to the Cameron–Martin norm. In particular, in many interesting situations we obtain a convergence and stability result for lifts of L^2-functions to models, which is of independent interest. The proof also involves two separate algebraic extensions of the regularity structure which are carried out in rather large generality.