Ergodicity of stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equations with logarithmic potentials driven by degenerate or nondegenerate noises

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Abstract: We study the asymptotic properties of the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation with the logarithmic free energy by establishing different dimension-free Harnack inequalities according to various kinds of noises. The main characteristics of this equation are the singularities of the logarithmic free energy at 1 and --1 and the conservation of the mass of the solution in its spatial variable. Both the space-time colored noise and the space-time white noise are considered. For the highly degenerate space-time colored noise, the asymptotic log-Harnack inequality is established under the so-called essentially elliptic conditions. And the Harnack inequality with power is established for non-degenerate space-time white noise.


The authors study asymptotic properties of the Markovian strong Feller semigroups associated to stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equations in one space dimension with singular logarithmic nonlinearity and additive Gaussian noise. The solutions to the stochastic equation take values in \([-1,1]\) due to the implementation of two reflection measures, comparable to the situation in [\textit{A. Debussche} and the first author, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 43, No. 3, 1473--1494 (2011; Zbl 1233.60036)]. The results extend those from [the first author and \textit{L. Manca}, Stochastic Processes Appl. 125, No. 10, 3785--3800 (2015; Zbl 1321.60134)], where the asymptotic strong Feller property of the semigroup associated to a similar equation was studied. The main results include the existence of an exponentially integrable invariant measure for highly degenerate colored noise that satisfy the essentially elliptic condition, and an asymptotic log-Harnack inequality, which is derived via coupling methods. Following the ideas of [\textit{F.-Y. Wang}, Ann. Probab. 39, No. 4, 1449--1467 (2011; Zbl 1238.60069)] for the case of non-degenerate space-time white noise, the authors prove a dimension-free Harnack inequality for the Markov semigroup, which then yields heat kernel estimates for the transition densities.



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