SPDE in Hilbert space with locally monotone coefficients (Q600966)

This interesting paper extends the usually treated framework for the variational approach for SPDEs without being conceptually more involved than the classical one. This includes a large class of cases of SPDEs with merely locally monotone coefficients. Existence and uniqueness of the (variational) solution of SPDE of the form \[ dX_t=A(t,X_t)dt+B(t,X_t) dW_t \] are established; and as examples the authors discuss as stochastic reaction-diffusion equations, stochastic Burgers type equation, stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equation, stochastic p-Laplace equation and stochastic porous media equation with non-monotone perturbations. For the proof, the authors are based on the variational approach using Gelfand triples and Galerkin approximations. Based uniform estimates they pass to the limit and to establish the existence of weak solutions. The main novelty with is that the authors are able relax the monotonicity condition to a local one. Moreover they weaken growth conditions.