Weak Pullback Attractors of Stochastic Semilinear Degenerate Equations with Memory Driven by Nonlinear Noise ()
1. Introduction
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the following degenerate semilinear parabolic equations with memory driven by nonlinear multiplicative noise on unbounded domain
:
(1)
with the initial data
(2)
where the variable nonnegative weighted coefficient
denotes the diffusivity, the forcing term
and the initial data
are given,
is a constant,
denotes the intensity of noise,
is a two-sided
-valued cylindrical Wiener process defined on the complete filtered probability space
.
This class of equations, exemplified by (1) with
, models delayed reaction-diffusion processes where the reaction term depends on the historical state of the temperature field [1]-[4]. Its applicability extends to physical systems like polymers and high-viscosity liquids [5]-[7]. A critical distinction arises in the general form of (1): a spatially variable coefficient
enables the model to represent media with potentially “perfect” insulating properties in certain subdomains, as noted in [8].
The study of well-posedness and attractors for deterministic degenerate parabolic equations, both with and without memory terms, has been extensively conducted, see e.g., [9]-[20] and the references therein. However, research on stochastic semilinear degenerate parabolic equations is relatively scarce, see [21]-[23]. In these published works, the authors have exclusively investigated systems on bounded domains, primarily examining the existence and stability of random attractors for the corresponding stochastic systems under additive and multiplicative noise conditions. A natural question arises: can the existence of random attractors be considered for semilinear degenerate equations driven by nonlinear noise?
To the best of the author’s knowledge, several studies have addressed stochastic evolution equations driven by nonlinear noise, see e.g., [24]-[29]. In these studies, the scholars mainly focus on the existence of weak mean random attractors for the corresponding stochastic systems. This is because, for stochastic evolution equations driven by nonlinear noise, we cannot use the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck transform to convert them into pathwise random differential equations, as can be done for equations driven by additive or linear multiplicative noise.
In particular, the authors in [26] investigated the existence of weak pullback random attractor for the stochastic degenerate semilinear parabolic equations driven by nonlinear noise. It is worth noting that this equation does not include a memory term. For the reaction-diffusion equation with memory term and nonlinear noise, the authors in [29] recently established the existence of weak mean random attractor for the corresponding stochastic system, though the equation in question is non-degenerate. Additionally, it should be emphasized that all the aforementioned studies are confined to bounded domains. Building on this, we may consider the existence of weak mean random attractor for the stochastic semilinear parabolic equation driven by nonlinear noise, which incorporates both degeneracy and a memory term, in an unbounded domain.
In studying the weak
-pullback mean random attractors for problem (1)-(2), we encounter several difficulties. The primary challenges include establishing suitable conditions on the degenerate variable diffusivity
and the nonlinear drift and diffusion terms. Moreover, the presence of the memory term introduces additional complexity: it obstructs the direct derivation of long-time uniform estimates of the solution. Instead, the uniform boundedness of
must be inferred from that of
. To address these challenges, we fully leverage existing results on weak pullback mean random attractors for degenerate parabolic equations in unbounded domains and reaction-diffusion equations with memory driven by nonlinear noise.
The structure of this paper is as follows. In Section 2, we introduce notations, recall the abstract theory of weak mean random attractors, and establish sufficient conditions on the variable diffusivity
and the nonlinear drift and diffusion terms. We also address the well-posedness of problem (16)-(17). In Section 3, we derive long-time uniform estimates of solutions for (16)-(17) and prove the existence of a weak
-pullback mean random attractor.
2. Preliminaries
We begin this section by introducing the necessary notations, proceed to recall the abstract theory of mean random dynamical systems and the existence of weak
-pullback mean random attractors, and conclude by stating the main assumptions on the nonnegative variable diffusivity, memory kernel, as well as nonlinear drift and diffusion terms, all of which are essential for the analysis to follow.
2.1. Notations
Let
be a generic constant, which is allowed to vary and may depend on the context, even within a single line. Denote
and
. Let
be the norm of
with
. We denote the norms of
and
by
and
, respectively. Moreover, let
and
be endowed with the following inner products:
To formulate our problem, we work in the Hilbert space
equipped with the norm
Denote the weight spaces
and
, as well as their inner products and norms are defined as
and
respectively. With the help of the aforementioned notations, the phase space of the problem (16)-(17) can be represented as
it is endowed the following norm
2.2. Abstract Theory on Weak Pullback Attractors
This subsection recalls the basic theory of mean random dynamical systems. We consider a complete filtered probability space
, where
is an increasing, right continuous the family of sub-σ-algebras of
that contains all
-null sets. We then introduce the necessary definitions and lemmas concerning the existence of weak
-pullback mean random attractors, following the framework in [27] [28] [30].
Let
be a complete and separable metric space with Borel sigma-algebra, and denote by
(for
) the Banach space of all equivalence classes of Bochner integrable functions
satisfying
The space
is defined similarly for any
. Furthermore, for any given
and
, the space
is subspace of
; precisely, it comprises all strongly
-measurable functions
in
Definition 1. Let
be two metric spaces,
be a set-valued mapping of the family of sets consisting of all nonempty bounded subsets form
to
. Then a family of sets
is called universal set of
, if
Following Definition 1, we work with a universal set in
defined by
(3)
Definition 2. For
and
, if
implies
, then
is called inclusion-closed.
Definition 3. A family
of mappings is said to be a mean random dynamical system on
over
if for
,
1)
(Identity operator on
);
2)
(cocycle property),
;
3)
.
As shown in [24] [27] [28], the mean random dynamical system Ψ from Definition 3 corresponds to a non-autonomous deterministic dynamical system on
over
.
Definition 4. A family
is said to be a
-pullback absorbing set for Ψ over
if for any
and
, there exists
such that for all
where
is called the absorption time. In particular, the family
is called a weakly
-pullback absorbing set for Ψ over
, if
is weakly compact subset of
for any
.
Definition 5. A family
is said to be a
-pullback weakly attracting set for Ψ in
over
if for any
,
and each weak neighborhood
of
in
, there exists
such that
holds true for all
, where
is called the attracting time.
In particular, the family
is said to be a weakly
-pullback weakly compact and weakly attracting set for Ψ over
, if
is weakly compact subset of
for any
.
Definition 6. Let
. Then
is said to be a
-pullback mean random attractor of Ψ in
over
if he following conditions hold:
(i)
is a weakly compact subset of
for every
;
(ii)
is a
-pullback weakly attracting set for Ψ;
(iii)
is the minimal element of
satisfying (i) and (ii), that is to say, if
is a
-pullback weakly compact and weakly attracting set for Ψ, then
for any
.
The following theorem establishes the existence and uniqueness of a weak
-pullback mean random attractor for the dynamical system Ψ on
over
.
Theorem 7. Assume that
is a reflexive Banach space and
. Let
be an inclusion-closed collection of some families of nonempty bounded subsets of
as given by (3) and Ψ be a mean random dynamical system on
over
. If Ψ has a weakly compact
-pullback absorbing set
on
over
, then Ψ possesses a unique weak
-pullback mean random attractors
on
over
which is given by the set as follows:
where the closure represents the weak topology of
.
2.3. Some Assumptions and Precise Model
To establish the well-posedness and investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions to Equation (1) subject to the initial condition (2), we make the following assumptions on the nonnegative variable diffusivity
, the nonlinearity
, and the memory
.
The weight function
is nonnegative and locally integrable on
. Furthermore, it satisfies the following conditions: there exists
, such that for all
,
(4)
and is bounded on the annular domains
for all sufficiently large
.
The memory kernel
is a nonnegative integrable function of total mass
. Let
, and we suppose that
(5)
and there exists a constant
, such that
(6)
Combining (5) and (6) yields
(7)
For simplicity, we suppress non-essential constants by setting
(8)
The nonlinearity
fulfills
, along with the dissipation condition
(9)
and the arbitrary order polynomial growth restriction
(10)
where
are the positive constants,
with
,
are the nonnegative functions. Furthermore, we assume that
is locally Lipschitz continuous with
, more precisely, for any compact subset
, there exists
such that
(11)
Let
satisfy that there exists the constants
such that for all
and
, there are
and
where
.
In particular, we assume that
(12)
Remark. We provide an example that satisfies condition (A1). For
, it can take the following form:
It is not difficult to verify that
satisfies all the conditions of (A1).
Following Dafermos [31], we characterize the past history of
by introducing a new variable
, defined as
(13)
Setting
,
, then we easily obtain
(14)
The historical variable
of
satisfies the integrability condition
(15)
where
is a constant and
, with
given in (6).
Therefore, the original problem (1)-(2) can be recast as follows:
(16)
with the initial data
(17)
From (15), we deduce the following estimate
2.4. Well-Posedness and Mean Random Dynamical System
The objective of this subsection is to demonstrate that problem (16)-(17) generates a mean random dynamical system. To this end, we first introduce the solution concept and establish the well-posedness of the problem.
Definition 8. Let
and
. An
-valued
-adapted stochastic process
is called a solution of the equation (16) with initial data (17), if
,
,
and for every
,
and
-a.s.
Using the argument of [32] (Theorem 1), we can obtain the following theorem. For the reader’s convenience, we state only the final result.
Theorem 9. Suppose
-
hold, and let
,
. The problem (16)-(17) possesses a unique solution
under the sense of Definition 8. In addition, for any
, it holds
(18)
which implies that
-a.s.
An application of Lebesgue’s dominated convergence theorem to (18) shows that
.
Now, we define the mapping Ψ by
(19)
where
is the solution of the problem (16)-(17) with initial value
.
Proof. We mainly prove the estimate (19).
Using Ito’s formula to the process
, we can obtain from (16) that
(20)
and we can also obtain
(21)
By Hölder’s inequality, Young’s inequality,
and
we have
(22)
Taking supremum and expectation of (22), we deduce
(23)
For the last term on the right-hand side of (23), by
and the Burkholder-Davis-Gundy (BDG) inequality we have
(24)
Combining with (23) and (24), we get
(25)
Using Gronwall’s lemma yields that for all
,
where , and by (12) we know that
is well-defined. This proof is finished. □
By the uniqueness of solutions, it follows that
defines a mean random dynamical system on
over
. Suppose
is a family of nonempty bounded sets such that
(26)
where
shall be given later, and
.
Furthermore, we use
to denote the collection of all families of nonempty bounded sets satisfying (26), that is,
3. Weak
-Pullback Mean Random Attractors
In this section, we shall investigate the existence and uniqueness of weak
-pullback mean random attractors for problem (16)-(17). For this purpose, we assume that
(27)
Hereafter, unless otherwise specified, the solution of problem (16)-(17) is denoted by
. In what follows, we first establish uniform priori estimates of solutions of the problem (16)-(17).
Lemma 10. Let
-
and (27) hold. Then, there exists
such that for all
, as well as for any
and
, there exists
such that for all
, the following estimate
holds for any
, where
is a constant which is not related to
and
.
Proof. Applying Ito’s formula to the process
, then by the first equation of (16) we can obtain that
(28)
Now, we deal with the equality (28). By Hölder’s and Young’s inequalities we have
(29)
By (10) in
we have
(30)
From
, we can deduce
(31)
Substituting (29)-(31) into (28), we obtain
(32)
Let
, then we get from (32) that for any
,
(33)
Taking
in (32), one has
(34)
Multiplying (34) by
, and then integrating it from
(
) to
, it yields
(35)
Moreover, using
to multiply the second equation of (16) in
, we have
(36)
By Hölder’s inequality, Young’s inequality and (8), it is easy to get that
which together with (36) can infer
(37)
where we used (35). Applying Gronwall’s inequality on
to (37), we have
(38)
Combining with (35) and (37), we obtain
Thanks to
and
, thereby we have
So, there exists
such that
In conclusion, by choosing appropriate
we can conclude the desired conclusion. The proof is completed. □
According to Lemma 10, we can give the existence of weakly compact
-pullback bounded absorbing set.
Lemma 11. Let
-
and (27) hold. Then, there exists
such that for all
, the mean random dynamical system Ψ associated with the problem (16)-(17) possesses a weakly compact
-pullback bounded absorbing set
, where, for any
,
is given by
where
can be found in Lemma 10.
Proof. First, from (27), it is straightforward to verify that the integral
is well-defined. Moreover, since
is a bounded, closed, and convex subset of the reflexive Banach space
, it follows that
is weakly compact in this space. In particular, by Lemma 10, for any
and any family
, there exists
such that
holds for any
and
. Lastly, it remains to prove that
, i.e., that
satisfies condition (26). From (27), we obtain
from which we can obtain
This completes the proof. □
Combining Theorem 7 and Lemma 11, we now establish the following theorem on the existence and uniqueness of the weak
-pullback mean random attractor for the mean random dynamical system Ψ.
Theorem 12. Let assumptions
-
and (27) hold. Then the mean random dynamical system
generated by problem (16)-(17) has a unique weak
-pullback mean random attractors
belonging to
on
over
, and the attractors
can be given, for every
,
is given as follows:
where the closure is taken as weak topology of
.