Gradient Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Semigroups by Coupling Methods

Abstract: Our purpose is to obtain gradient estimates for certain nonlinear partial differential equations by coupling methods. First we derive uniform gradient estimates for a certain semi-linear PDEs based on the coupling method introduced in Wang (2011) and the theory of backward SDEs. Then we generalize Wang's coupling to the $G$-expectation space and obtain gradient estimates for nonlinear diffusion semigroups, which correspond to the solutions of a certain fully nonlinear PDEs.