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Random attractor for a stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2013, Article number: 201 (2013)
Abstract
In this paper, we study the asymptotic dynamics of the stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation with periodic boundary condition. We investigate the existence of a random attractor for the dynamical system associated with the equation. The random attractor is invariant and attracts every pull-back tempered random set under the forward flow. We establish the asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system by compactness of embedding of Sobolev space.
1 Introduction
The Camassa-Holm equation
models the unidirectional propagation of shallow water waves over a flat bottom [1–4]. It has been paid considerable attention due to its rich nonlinear phenomenology. It is completely integrable [1] and it has stable solitons [5]. It admits the peakons which is also stable [6, 7]. In [8, 9], it has been shown that (1.1) is locally well-posed for initial data (). More interestingly, there are a rich variety of global strong solutions and blow-up solutions [8–10]. Xin and Zhang obtained the global existence of weak solution [11]. Bressan and Constantin obtained the existence of global conservative and dissipative solutions [6, 12].
Some types of coupled Camassa-Holm equation appeared gradually and were investigated rapidly following (1.1). For example, Fu and Qu considered the following coupled Camassa-Holm equation [13]:
which has peakon solitons in the form of a superposition of multipeakons. They investigated local well-posedness and blow-up solutions of (1.2) by means of Kato’s semigroup approach to nonlinear hyperbolic evolution equation and obtained a criterion and condition on the initial data guaranteeing the development of singularities in finite time for strong solutions of (1.2) by energy estimates. Moreover, an existence result for a class of local weak solutions was also given.
In [14], Tian and Xu investigated the existence of global attractor for a viscous Camassa-Holm equation as follows:
with the periodic boundary condition in :
The authors proved that (1.3) has a unique solution in infinite time interval by prior estimates and demonstrated its long time behavior which was described by a global attractor.
In [15], Tian, Xu and Zhou studied the existence of the global attractor for the viscous two-component Camassa-Holm equation:
with the periodic boundary condition in :
They considered the well-posedness and discussed the existence of global solution of (1.4) in by using prior estimates. Finally, they showed the long time behavior of solution and obtained the existence of global attractor of (1.4).
Motivated by the persistence of the global attractor under a white noise, in our paper, we will investigate the long time behavior and the existence of the global random attractor of stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation:
with initial and periodic boundary condition
where , , , . is a given function defined on , which described in the following. is a two-side real-valued Wiener process on a probability space which will be specified later.
A system is usually uncertain in reality due to some external noise, which is random. The random effects are considered not only as compensations for the defects in some deterministic models, but also rather essential phenomena [16–20].
Attractor is an important concept to describe long time behavior of solutions for a given system. It is known that the long time behavior of random systems is captured by a pullback random attractor, which was introduced in [17, 21, 22] as an extension of attractor theory of deterministic system in [23–27]. The existence of random attractors for stochastic differential equations has been studied extensively by many authors [28–35]. To our best knowledge, the problem of random attractor for (1.5) has not been discussed. We think it is a significant work to obtain a random attractor for the system.
The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we review the pullback random attractor theory for random dynamical systems and some lemmas. In Section 3, we define a random dynamical system for the stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation. Then we derive the uniform estimates of solutions in Section 4. These estimates are necessary for proving the existence of bounded random absorbing sets and the asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system and prove the existence of a pullback random attractor in . We conclude that the global attractor persists under a white noise.
2 Preliminaries
In this section, we recall some basic concepts related to random attractors for stochastic dynamical systems and some basic inequalities, which refer to [16–18, 21, 36] for more details.
Let be a separable Hilbert space with Borel σ-algebra , and be a probability space.
Definition 2.1 is called a metric dynamical system if is -measurable, is the identity on Ω, for all and for all .
Definition 2.2 A continuous random dynamical system (RDS) on X over a metric dynamical system is a mapping
which is -measurable and satisfies, for P-a.e. ,
-
(i)
is the identity on X;
-
(ii)
for all ;
-
(iii)
is continuous for all .
Hereafter, we assume that Φ is a continuous RDS on X over .
Definition 2.3 A random bounded set of X is called tempered with respect to if for P-a.e. ,
where .
Definition 2.4 Let be a collection of random subsets of X. Then is called inclusion-closed if and with for all imply that .
Definition 2.5 A random set is called an absorbing set of Φ in if for every and P-a.e. , there exists such that
Definition 2.6 The RDS Φ is said to be -pullback asymptotically compact in X if for P-a.e. , has a convergent subsequence in X whenever , and with .
Definition 2.7 A random set is called a -pullback attractor (or -random attractor) for Ω if the following conditions are satisfied, for P-a.e. ,
-
(i)
is compact, and is measurable for every ;
-
(ii)
is invariant, that is,
-
(iii)
attracts every set in , that is, for every ,
where d is the Hausdorff semi-metric given by for any and .
The following existence result on a random attractor for a continuous RDS can be found in [18, 28].
Theorem 2.1 Let be an inclusion-closed collection of random subsets of X and Φ a continuous RDS on X over . Suppose that is closed absorbing set of Φ in and Φ is -pullback asymptotically compact in X. Then Φ has a unique -pullback attractor which is given by
Some basic inequalities which will be used frequently in the following consideration are presented as follows.
Lemma 2.1 (Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality)
Suppose that , , , , , , and there exists a constant c, such that
Lemma 2.2 (Poincaré inequality)
Assume that and that Σ is a bounded connected open subset of the n-dimensional Euclidean space with a Lipschitz boundary (i.e., Σ is a Lipschitz domain). Then there exists a constant , depending only on Σ and p, such that for every function u in the Sobolev space ,
where .
Lemma 2.3 (Young inequality)
, where , . As , one has .
3 Stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation
For convenience, we introduce some marks. We denote and the norms in and respectively. We denote and . The Laplace operator Δ is an isomorphism from to H. The eigenvalues of Δ has the form where and . Then the Poincaré inequality is simplified down to , where and λ denotes the first eigenvalue of Δ.
In this section, we discuss the existence of a continuous random dynamical system for the stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation defined on . Consider the following stochastic equation:


with initial and periodic boundary condition



where . W is a two-sided real-valued Wiener process on a probability space, which will be determined below.
In the sequel, we consider the probability space where
ℱ is the Borel σ-algebra induced by the compact-open topology of Ω, and P the corresponding Wiener measure on . Define the time shift by
Then is a metric dynamical system. We need to convert the stochastic equation (3.1) with a random term into a deterministic one with a random parameter. Then we consider the stationary solutions of the one-dimensional equation:
The solution to (3.6) is given by
It’s known that there exists a -invariant set of full P measure such that is continuous in t for every , and the random variable is tempered [16, 17, 21, 28]. We give some properties of the process as follows.
Lemma 3.1 For the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process , we have the following results [34]




Define , where the domain of the Laplace operator Δ is . By (3.6) we find that
Substituting in (3.1)-(3.2) for , we have that


where
with the boundary condition


and initial condition
We will consider (3.13)-(3.17) for and write as Ω from now on.
Let , by a Galerkin method as in [14, 15], it can be proved that for P-a.e. and for the initial condition , problem (3.13)-(3.17) has a unique global solution with . Further, the solution is continuous with respect to in E for all . Hence, the solution mapping defined by
generates a continuous random dynamical system, where .
Now we introduce a homeomorphism , whose inverse homeomorphism . Then the transformation
generates a random dynamical system associated with (3.1)-(3.5). Note that the two random dynamical systems are equivalent by (3.19). It is easy to check that has a random attractor provided possesses a random attractor. So, we only need to consider the random dynamical system .
4 Uniform estimates of solution
In this section, we derive uniform estimates on the solution of the stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Hlom equation when . These estimates are necessary for proving the existence of bounded absorbing sets and the asymptotic compactness of the random dynamical system. From now on, we always assume that is the collection of tempered random subsets of E.
As a beginning, we estimate the process . By employing Gagliardo-Nirenberg’s inequality and Cauchy-Schwatz’s inequality, we have


where c is the constant in Lemma 2.1.
Lemma 4.1 Let and . Then for P-a.e. , there exists and a random variable , such that the solution of (3.13)-(3.17) satisfies, for all ,
Proof Taking the inner product of (3.13), (3.14) with u, v in respectively, we have that


Integrating by parts, we have





Associating with (4.6)-(4.10) we note that
Employing Young inequality and Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality, the terms with random parameter of (4.4) and (4.5) are bounded by


and

According to Poincaré inequality, combining (4.4) with (4.5) and following the estimates from (4.11)-(4.14), we obtain

Then (4.15) is equivalent to
where , and . We denote
Applying Gronwall lemma, we obtain that, for all ,
where
Replacing ω by in (4.18) we obtain that, for all ,
For all ,
Then for all , (4.20) is equivalent to
Lemma 3.1 implies that
so for P-a.e. , there exists and such that for and ,
Note that is tempered, and by (4.23)-(4.24), the integrand of the second term on the right-hand side of (4.22) is convergent to zero exponentially as . This shows that for P-a.e. , the following integral:
is convergent. By assumption, is tempered. Therefore, if , then there is such that for all ,
Let , we get that for all ,
which completes the proof. □
Lemma 4.2 Let and . Then for P-a.e. , there exists and a random variable , such that the solutions of (3.13)-(3.17) satisfy, for all ,
Proof Now we denote
From the statements and estimates above, we get that
Integrating (4.30) with respect to s over , we get that
Replacing ω by in (4.31), we get
Replacing t by s, where , and then replacing ω by in (4.18), we get that
As the discussion in (4.21), for all , we have
which states
As the consideration from (4.23)-(4.27), which implies that when , ,
where . Then
Following from Proposition 4.3.3 in [16], there exists a tempered function such that
where satisfies, for P-a.e. ,
Along with (4.38)-(4.39), we conclude that
where
which completes the proof. □
Lemma 4.3 Let and . Then for P-a.e. , there exists and a random variable , such that the solutions of (3.13)-(3.17) satisfy, for all ,
Proof Taking the inner product of (3.13) and (3.14) in respectively with and , we have


By integrating by parts, we get







Employing Young inequality and Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality, along with (4.45)-(4.51), we get

Then we estimate the terms with random parameter. They are bounded by


and

According to Poincaré inequality along with (4.52)-(4.55), we obtain
where , , , and , . Applying Gronwall lemma over , where and , we get
where
Replacing ω by in (4.57), we obtain that
For and , we have
We denote
then along with (4.36) we obtain

Now integrating (4.62) with respect to s over where , we obtain that

Associating with Lemma 4.2, we see that
where
which completes the proof. □
So far, Lemma 4.1 and Lemma 4.3 implies that there exists a random variable such that for all ,
The next lemma will illustrate the existence of the random absorbing set for Φ in .
Lemma 4.4 There exists such that is a random absorbing set for Φ in , that is, for any and P-a.e. , there is such that
Proof We denote
Then . Further, (4.67) indicates that is a random absorbing set for Φ in , which completes the proof. □
Next we derive uniform estimates for in .
Lemma 4.5 Let and . Then for P-a.e. , there exists and a random variable , such that the solutions of (3.13)-(3.17) satisfy, for all ,
Proof Now we denote
Associating with (4.43)-(4.44) and (4.52)-(4.55), we get
where . Applying Gronwall lemma over where , then we obtain
where
Replacing ω by in (4.71), we get
As the discussion in (4.21)-(4.27), for and , we have
Replacing ω by in (4.31), we obtain that
where
Replacing ω by in (4.57), we have
where

We denote
Integrating (4.77) with respect to s on , we get
We denote
For all , we have
We denote
Associating with (4.80)-(4.82), we have
We denote
So we conclude that when
which completes the proof. □
Lemma 4.6 Let and . Then for P-a.e. , there exists and a random variable , such that the solutions of (3.13)-(3.17) satisfy, for all ,
Proof Taking the inner product of (3.13) and (3.14), respectively, with and in , we get


By integrating by parts and employing Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality, we have




and

Associating with (4.90)-(4.94), we get

where , , , . As the considerations of above statements, we estimate the terms with random parameter in (4.88) and (4.89). They are bounded by


and

Associating with (4.88)-(4.89), (4.95)-(4.98), we get
where , , , . By Gronwall lemma from s to , where and we have that
where

Replacing ω by in (4.100), we have
As the previous estimates, for , we get
We denote
Integrating (4.102) with respect to s on where , we get
We denote
which implies that
which completes the proof. □
5 Random attractors
In this section, we prove the existence of a -random attractor for the random dynamical system Ψ associated with the stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation (3.1)-(3.5) with periodic boundary condition. It follows from Lemma 4.4 that Φ has a closed random absorbing set in , which along with the -pullback asymptotic compactness will imply the existence of a unique -random attractor. The -pullback asymptotic compactness of Φ is given below and will be proved by the compactness of embedding of Sobolev space.
Lemma 5.1 The random dynamical system Φ is -pullback asymptotically compact in : that is, for P-a.e. , the sequence has a convergent subsequence in provided , and .
Proof Let , and . Then by Lemma 4.4, for P-a.e. , we have that
is bounded in . Hence, there is such that, up to a subsequence,
weakly in . On the other hand, by Lemma 4.1, Lemma 4.3 and Lemma 4.6, there exists a random variable and such that for all ,
Let be large enough such that for . Then by (5.1) we find that, for all ,
By the compactness of embedding , it follows from (5.2) that, up to a subsequence,
strongly in as desired. □
We are now in a position to present our main result: the existence of a -random attractor for Ψ in .
Theorem 5.1 The random dynamical system Ψ has a unique -random attractor in .
Proof Notice that Φ has a closed random absorbing set in by Lemma 4.4, and is -pullback asymptotically compact in by Lemma 5.1. Hence, the existence of a unique -random attractor for Φ follows from Theorem 2.1 immediately. Then (3.19) implies that Ψ has a -random attractor in . □
We have checked the persistence of global attractor of viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation with periodic boundary condition under a white noise.
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Huang, Z., Tang, H. & Liu, Z. Random attractor for a stochastic viscous coupled Camassa-Holm equation. J Inequal Appl 2013, 201 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2013-201
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