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# Counterexamples to local Lipschitz and local Hölder continuity with respect to the initial values for additive noise driven stochastic differential equations with smooth drift coefficient functions with at most polynomially growing derivatives

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This work has been funded by DFG grant EXC 2044-390685587, Mathematics Münster: Dynamics-Geometry-Structure

• In the recent article [A. Jentzen, B. Kuckuck, T. Müller-Gronbach, and L. Yaroslavtseva, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 502, 2 (2021)] it has been proved that the solutions to every additive noise driven stochastic differential equation (SDE) which has a drift coefficient function with at most polynomially growing first order partial derivatives and which admits a Lyapunov-type condition (ensuring the existence of a unique solution to the SDE) depend in the strong sense in a logarithmically Hölder continuous way on their initial values. One might then wonder whether this result can be sharpened and whether in fact, SDEs from this class necessarily have solutions which depend in the strong sense locally Lipschitz continuously on their initial value. The key contribution of this article is to establish that this is not the case. More precisely, we supply a family of examples of additive noise driven SDEs, which have smooth drift coefficient functions with at most polynomially growing derivatives and whose solutions do not depend in the strong sense on their initial value in a locally Lipschitz continuous, nor even in a locally Hölder continuous way.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 60H10.

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