Splitting for some classes of homeomorphic and coalescing stochastic flows

Abstract: The splitting scheme (the Kato-Trotter formula) is applied to stochastic flows with common noise of the type introduced by Th.E.~Harris. The case of possibly coalescing flows with continuous infinitesimal covariance is considered and the weak convergence of the corresponding finite-dimensional motions is established. As applications, results for the convergence of the associated pushforward measures and dual flows are given. Similarities between splitting and the Euler-Maruyama scheme yield estimates of the speed of the convergence under additional regularity assumptions.