00-361 Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Martin Hairer

Uniqueness of the Invariant Measure for a Stochastic PDE Driven by Degenerate Noise (439K, postscript) Sep 15, 00

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Abstract. We consider the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau equation in a bounded domain. We assume the stochastic forcing acts only on high spatial frequencies. The low-lying frequencies are then only connected to this forcing through the non-linear (cubic) term of the Ginzburg-Landau equation. Under these assumptions, we show that the stochastic PDE has a unique invariant measure. The techniques of proof combine a controllability argument for the low-lying frequencies with an infinite dimensional version of the Malliavin calculus to show positivity and regularity of the invariant measure. This then implies the uniqueness of that measure.

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