218 8 Mean Derivatives in Linear Spaces
tor α(t, x). Obviously α(t, x) belongs to
¯
S
+
(n) for all t, x. The Borel measur-
able set-valued mapping a(t, x) has a Borel measurable single-valued selector
a(t, x).
Let ε
i
→ 0 be a positive sequence. Define α
i
(t, x)=α(t, x)+ε
i
I where
I is the unit n × n matrix. Clearly the α
i
are strictly positive definite and
continuous. Then by Lemma 8.40 there exists a continuous A
i
(t, x) such that
A
i
(t, x)A
∗
i
(t, x)=α
i
(t, x). Recall that tr α
i
(t, x) is equal to the sum of the
squares of the elements of A
i
(t, x), i.e., it is the square of the Euclidean norm
in L(R
n
, R
n
). Since in the finite-dimensional linear space S(n) all norms are
equivalent, from (8.55) it immediately follows that A(t, x) <K(1+x)for
some K>0. As α
i
(t, x) is positive definite, the matrix A
i
(t, x) is invertible
for all t, x.Sincea(t, x) is measurable and satisfies (8.55), under the above-
mentioned properties of A
i
(t, x)by[83, Theorem III.3.3] there exists a weak
solution of the stochastic differential equation
ξ
i
(t)=ξ
0
+
t
0
a(s, ξ
i
(s))ds +
t
0
A
i
(s, ξ
i
(s))dw(s), (8.57)
well-defined on the entire interval t ∈ [0,T]. Denote this solution by ξ
i
(t).
ξ
i
(t) determines a measure μ
i
on (
˜
Ω,
˜
F)where(
˜
Ω,
˜
F) was introduced in the
proof of Theorem 8.46.
The rest of the proof is analogous to that of Theorem 7.51. All equa-
tions (8.57) satisfy the hypothesis of Lemma 6.27. The set of measures
{μ
i
} is weakly compact so that there exists a subsequence that weakly con-
verges to some measure μ. Denote by ξ(t) the coordinate process on the
probability space (
˜
Ω,
˜
F,μ). Construct A(t, x(·)) by analogy with Theorem
7.51, i.e., as a weak limit in the corresponding L
2
space of the bounded
(and so weakly compact) set A
i
. The process ξ(t) satisfies the equality
ξ(t)=ξ
0
+
t
0
a(s, ξ(s))ds +
t
0
A(s, ξ(·))dw where w(t) is some Wiener pro-
cess. Since by construction α
i
converges to α uniformly, one can easily show
that E
ξ
t
(AA
∗
)=α.ByTheorem8.7 and Theorem 8.12, this means that ξ(t)
is the weak solution of (8.45) that we are looking for.
Equations and inclusions with backward mean derivatives arise in the de-
scription of some special stochastic processes of mathematical physics. For
example (see, e.g., [113, 106, 115]) a second order equation in backward mean
derivatives of the group of Sobolev diffeomorphisms may be derived that de-
scribes a process whose expectation is a flow of a viscous incompressible fluid.
It should be pointed out that the study of such equations and inclusions is
generally much more complicated than that of equations and inclusions with
forward mean derivatives. Nevertheless there exists a simple method which
uses the inverse time direction to solve equations and inclusions with forward
mean derivatives, allowing one to obtain results for the case of backward
mean derivatives. We refer the reader to [7] for some statements of this sort.
As mentioned in Section 8.1, the notion of current velocity is analogous to
that of ordinary velocity for a non-random process. Thus, from the physical