Existence, uniqueness and regularity for the stochastic Ericksen–Leslie equation

Abstract

We investigate existence and uniqueness for the liquid crystal flow driven by colored noise on the two-dimensional torus. After giving a natural uniqueness criterion, we prove local solvability in L p -based spaces, for every p > 2. Thanks to a bootstrap principle together with a Gyöngy–Krylov-type compactness argument, this will ultimately lead us to prove the existence of a particular class of global solutions which are partially regular, strong in the probabilistic sense, and taking values in the ‘critical space’ L 2 × H 1.