Temporal Regularity of Symmetric Stochastic p-Stokes Systems

Abstract

We study the symmetric stochastic p-Stokes system, \(p \in (1,\infty )\), in a bounded domain. The results are two-fold: First, we show that in the context of analytically weak solutions, the stochastic pressure—related to non-divergence free stochastic forces—enjoys almost \(-1/2\) temporal derivatives on a Besov scale. Second, we verify that the velocity u of strong solutions obeys 1/2 temporal derivatives in an exponential Nikolskii space. Moreover, we prove that the non-linear symmetric gradient \(V(\mathbb {\epsilon } u) = (\kappa + \left| \mathbb {\epsilon } u\right| )^{(p-2)/2} \mathbb {\epsilon } u\), \(\kappa \ge 0\), which measures the ellipticity of the p-Stokes system, has 1/2 temporal derivatives in a Nikolskii space.