Random attractors for stochastic time-dependent damped wave equation with critical exponents (Q2183709)

The authors prove the existence of random attractors for nonautonomous stochastic damped wave equations of the form \[ u_{tt}+\beta(t)u_t-\Delta u+f(u)-g(t,x)=\sum_{j=1}^m h_j(x)\circ \dot W_j(t) \quad \text{in}\ (\tau,\infty)\times D, \] with the boundary and initial conditions \[ \begin{aligned} u|_{t=\tau}&=u_\tau,\quad u_t|_{t=\tau}=v_\tau &&\ \text{in}\ \{\tau\}\times D,\cr u|_{\partial D}&=0& &\ \text{in}\ [\tau,\infty)\times \partial D, \end{aligned} \] where \(u_\tau\in H_0^1(D)\), \(v_\tau\in L^2(D)\) and \(D\subset\mathbb{R}^3\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial D.\) Moreover, \(W_1,\dots,W_m\) are independent, two-sided real-valued Brownian motions, \(h_1,\dots,h_m\in H_0^1(D)\) and \(\circ\) indicates Stratanovich's interpretation of the stochastic differential equation. It is assumed that \(g\in C_b(\mathbb{R};L^2(D))\) and \(\beta\in C^1(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{R})\) is bounded from above and below by positive constants. Furthermore, the nonlinearity \(f\in C^2(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{R})\) satisfies the growth assumption \[ |f'(s)|\leq c(1+|s|^q),\qquad 0\leq q\leq 2, \] for some constant \(c\geq 0\), and the dissipativity assumption \[ \lim_{|s|\to\infty}\frac{f(s)}{s}>-\lambda_1, \] where \(\lambda_1>0\) denotes the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian \(-\Delta\) with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under these assumptions it is shown that the generated random dynamical system possesses a (nonautonomous) random attractor in \(H_0^1(D)\times L^2(D)\) which has finite fractal dimension. Furthermore, the existence of a (nonautonomous) random exponential attractor is shown.