Wong-Zakai approximations and support theorems for SDEs under Lyapunov conditions

Abstract: In this paper, we establish the Stroock-Varadhan type support theorems for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) under Lyapunov conditions, which significantly improve the existing results in the literature where the coefficients of the SDEs are required to be globally Lipschitz and of linear growth. Our conditions are very mild to include many important models, e.g. Threshold Ornstein-Ulenbeck process, Stochastic SIR model, Stochastic Lotka-Volterra systems, Stochastic Duffing-van der Pol oscillator model, which have polynomial the coefficients. To obtain the support theorem, we prove a new Wong-Zakai approximation problem, which is of independent interest.