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For stochastic conservation laws with nonlocal interactions, does the rate of convergence in the nonlocal-to-local limit depend on the regularity of the initial data in a sharp and quantifiable way?

Related: Kružkov entropy solution theorem, DiPerna-Lions renormalization theory, regularization by noise for transport equations

The nonlocal-to-local limit for stochastic conservation laws establishes that as the interaction kernel concentrates to a Dirac delta, solutions of nonlocal stochastic conservation laws converge to solutions of their local counterparts. However, the precise rate at which this convergence occurs, and how that rate depends on the smoothness or roughness of the initial condition, remains unknown. In particular, it is unclear whether initial data with minimal regularity, such as data that is merely a bounded measurable function or an element of some fractional Sobolev space, leads to a degraded convergence rate, or whether the stochastic forcing can in some sense regularize the problem and restore a uniform rate across wide classes of initial data.

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