1. Introduction
We consider the following stochastic semi-linear degenerate parabolic equation:
where
is an arbitrary (bounded or unbounded) domain,
is positive constants,
W is a two-sided Hilbert space valued cylindrical Wiener process or a two-side real-valued Wiener process, the drift term
f and diffusion term
h are nonlinear functions with respect to
u, the given function
. In addition, the variable nonnegative coefficient
is allowed to have at most a finite number of (essential) zeros at some points, which is understood the degeneracy of (
1). As in [
3,
8], we assume that the nonnegative function
satisfies the following hypotheses:
- ()
and for some , for every , when the domain is bounded;
- ()
satisfies condition and for some , when the domain is unbounded.
The conditions and indicates that the diffusion coefficient is extremely irregular.
One of the most important things in studying evolution partial differential equations is to investigate the long-time behavior of solutions of the equations. In this process, attractors are the ideal objects. At present, abundant results, both in abstract context and concrete models, have been established for the deterministic infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, see, e.g. monographs [
2,
14,
25] and papers [
3,
4,
11]. However, when one considers the random influences on the systems under investigation, which are always presented as stochastic partial differential equations, and tries to establish the existence of attractors for them, the theory on deterministic infinite-dimensional system can not be applied directly. On the one hand, the stochastic dynamical systems are non-autonomous, and one can not obtain uniform (w.r.t stochastic time symbol) absorbing set as the deterministic case as in e.g. [
14]; on the other hand, owing to the influences of stochastic driving system, one can not obtain the fixed invariant set for stochastic dynamical system in general.
In order to overcome these drawbacks, Flandoli etc. in [
9,
10] introduce the theory of pathwise random dynamical systems and (pathwise) random attractors for the autonomous stochastic equations, in which the random attractor is a family of compact sets depending on random parameters and has some invariant property under the action of the random dynamical system. Recent theory in [
12,
27] are related to non-autonomous pathwise random dynamical systems and pullback random attractors for non-autonomous stochastic equations, where the pullback random attractor is a family of compact sets depending on both random parameters and deterministic time symbols. Up to now, there are many results on the existence and uniqueness of random attractor, one can refer to [
16,
20,
29,
36] for the autonomous stochastic equations and [
22,
28,
29,
30] for the non-autonomous stochastic equations. In addition, for the result about random attractors for equation (
1) with linear noise, see, e.g. [
5,
13,
16,
29,
36].
However, when one investigates the dynamics of stochastic evolution equations driven by nonlinear noise, the existence of random attractors can not be established directly, since the serious challenge is that the existence of random dynamical system is unknown in general for these kinds of systems. As far as it is known, up to now there are two ways to over come this difficulty in some sense. One method is to investigate the dynamic behavior of the Wong-Zaki approximate system corresponding to original equation. For example, Lu and Wang in [
21] get the existence of pullback random attractor for the Wong-Zakai approximate system of a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation with the nonlinear noise in some bounded spatial domain, and later, Wang et al. in [
34] extend the result of [
21] to unbounded domains by using the method of tail estimates. The another method is established by Kloeden et al. in [
18] and Wang in [
31], that is, they extend the concept of pathwise random attractor to mean context and establish the corresponding existence theory of mean random attractor for random dynamical system. There are some relevant works, see e.g. [
32,
33].
The first purpose of this article is to establish the existence of weak pullback mean random attractors for Eq. (
1) by using the theory of [
31]. Toward this end, we first need to get the existence and uniqueness of solution for Eq. (
1). Unlike reference [
31], the existence of solution for Eq. (
1) can not be obtained directly by using the abstract result (Theorem 4.2.4) in [
24] since the drift term
is allowed to be polynomial growth of arbitrary order with respect to
u in this article. We aim to prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution for Eq. (
1) by using the approach of [
32], in which the author prove existence of solutions for a stochastic reaction-diffusion equations involving drift term
with polynomial growth of any order and nonlinear diffusion term
, and the embedding
for
(
) plays an essential role in this proof. Hence, we show the embedding result of the corresponding Sobolev space with weight
in
Section 2. In
Section 3, we show the solution generate a mean random dynamical system and establish the existence of weak pullback random attractors for Eq. (
1). We shall remark that since the mean random dynamical system is defined on the Banach space
consisting of all Bochner integrable functions and corresponding probability space
lacks some topological structure, we only get the weakly compact property and weakly attracting property of mean random attractors for (
1) in
.
The second goal is to investigate dynamic behavior of the Wong-Zakai approximate system for Eq. (
1). We prove the existence of pullback random attractor for the Wong-Zakai approximate system for equation (
1) with nonlinear diffusion term
, which is allowed to be polynomial growth, and we also show that the pullback random attractor of Wong-Zaki approximation for Eq. (
1) converges to the attractor of Eq. (
1) as the size of approximation tends to zero, when
is equal to
u. This work will be done in section 4. We remark that when we prove the pullback asymptotic compactness, we use method of weighted sobolev spaces to overcome the non-compactness of usual Sobolev embeddings in the case of unbounded domain, which is different from that of [
21].
In what follows of this article, the constant C represents some positive constant and may change from line to line.
3. Mean Random Attractors for Stochastic Semi-linear Degenerate
Parabolic Equation
Let
U be a separable Hilbert space and
be the Hilbert space consisting of all Hilbert-Schmidt operators from
U to
with norm
. We consider the following non-autonomous stochastic semi-linear degenerate parabolic equation defined on any bounded or unbounded domain
:
where
W is a two-sided
U-valued cylindrical Wiener process defined on the complete filtered probability space
, while
,
and
are the same as described in
Section 1. In this section, the stochastic term in Eq. (
8) is understood in the sense of Itô integration. Since the Itô integral is martingale, it is convenient for us to take expectation and get the existence of weak pullback mean random attractor.
Let
be a bounded domain (or an unbounded domain) and let the nonnegative function
satisfy
(or (
)). We assume that
is a smooth nonlinear function such that
and for all
and
,
where
are positive constants, and
with
,
,
with
. We also assume
is locally Lipschitz continuous in
u, i.e., for each bounded interval
, there is
such that
Assume satisfies the following conditions:
- (A1)
For any
,
and
, there are positive constants
and
L such that
- (A2)
For each
, there is a positive constant
depending on
r such that for every
,
, and
with
and
,
Moreover, we suppose that for each given , is progressively measurable.
We now show the solution of Eq. (
8) can define a mean random dynamical system. The definition of solution for Eq. (
8) is given as follows in this case.
Definition 9. Let
and
. A
-valued
-adapted stochastic process
u is called a solution of (
8) on
with initial data
if
and P-a.s. satisfies
Using Lemma 3, Lemma 4, we can get the following result in a similar way that have been used in [
32].
Lemma 6.
Let and . If conditions (9)-(14) hold, then there exists a unique solution to Eq. (8) in the sense of Definition 9. Besides,
Note that
for all
, which implies that
. Thus we can define the mean random dynamical system
for Eq. (
8) on
by
where
and
u is the solution of system (
8) with initial data
.
Let
be a family of nonempty bounded sets. A family
is said to be tempered if for any
, there is
We denote by
the collection of all tempered families of nonempty bounded subsets of
, that is,
To get the existence of tempered random attractors, we further assume:
To investigate the existence of weak
-pullback mean random attractors for Eq. (
8), we need the uniform estimate of solutions, and by the following result, we can construct a weakly compact
-pullback absorbing set for
.
Lemma 7.
Suppose (9)-(14) and (17) hold. Then for every and , there exists some such that for all and , the solution u to Eq. (8) satisfies
where M is a positive constant independent of τ and .
Proof. By the Itô formula, we obtain from (
8) that for each
,
Taking the expectation on both sides of (
20), we get, for almost all
, that
Thus, for almost all
, we have
Now, we estimate each item on the right-hand side of (
22). By (10) we have that
which implies
Note that
which implies that
We deduce from (
22)-(
26) and (
13) that, for almost all
,
Applying Gronwall’s inequality to (
27), we get
Since
and
, we get
Therefore, there exists
such that for all
,
By (
29) and (
30), we get, for all
, there exists some positive constant
M independent of
and
such that
This completes the proof. □
Corollary 1.
Let (9)-(14) and (17)-(18) hold. Then the mean random dynamical system Φ for Eq. (8) possesses a weakly compact -pullback absorbing set which is given by,
with M being the same constant as in Lemma 7.
Proof. We know that for each
in (
31) is a bounded and closed convex subset of
, and therefore it is weakly compact in
. Lemma 7 indicates that for every
and
, there exists
such that
In addition, from (
18) and (
32), we get for any
that is
. Hence,
is a weakly compact
-pullback absorbing set for
. □
Theorem 1. Suppose (9)-(14) and (17)-(18) hold. Then the mean random dynamical system Φ for problem (8) possesses a unique weak -pullback mean random attractor in over .
Proof. From Lemma 5 and Corollary 1, we can easily get the existence and uniqueness of weak
-pullback mean random attractor
of
for Eq. (
8). □