Pathwise uniqueness for degenerate stochastic differential equations with Hölder continuous coefficients

Abstract

In this paper, we study the pathwise uniqueness problem for a class of degenerate stochastic differential equations with Hölder continuous diffusion coefficients arising from a cyclic catalytic super-Markov chain. The key step is a direct construction of a strong solution using Malliavin's compactness criteria. The pathwise uniqueness is then obtained by the dual Yamada-Watanabe argument together with the weak uniqueness already existing in the literature.