Invariant measures for stochastic nonlinear beam and wave equations (Q2634262)

The authors consider the stochastic extensible beam equation \[ u_{tt}+ A^2u + \beta u_t + m(\|B^{1/2} u\|_H^2)Bu =G(u)dW \] in which \(A\) and \(B\) are two selfadjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space \(H\) and \(W\) is a standard cylindrical Wiener process on a real separable Hilbert space and \(G\) satisfies a linear growth and Lipschitz condition; and also the stochastic Cauchy problem \[ u_{tt}= \Delta u - m^2u - a u|u|^{p-1} -\beta u_t +F+ g(u)\dot{W} \] with a Dirichlet boundary condition on a bounded domain \(D\) in \(\mathbb R^d\) with smooth boundary. Here, \(m, a \geq0\), \(a>0\), and \(F\in L^2(D)\). They establish \(bw\)-Feller property of transition semigroup corresponding to these two class of stochastic equations by applying a method based on \(bw\)-continuity, uniform boundedness in probability on compact intervals and results on convergence of sequences of local martingales. The authors prove also the existence of an invariant measure using the results on \(bw\)-Feller property and estimates in terms of Lyapunov functions.