An extrapolation result in the variational setting: improved regularity, compactness, and applications to quasilinear systems

In this paper we consider the variational setting for SPDE on a Gelfand triple $(V,H,V^{\ast })$. Under the standard conditions on a linear coercive pair $(A,B)$, and a symmetry condition on $A$ we manage to extrapolate the classical $L^2$-estimates in time to $L^p$-estimates for some $p>2$ without any further conditions on $(A,B)$. As a consequence we obtain several other a priori regularity results of the paths of the solution. Under the assumption that $V$ embeds compactly into $H$, we derive a universal compactness result quantifying over all $(A,B)$. As an application of the compactness result we prove global existence of weak solutions to a system of second order quasi-linear equations.