Inertial Manifolds and Forms for Stochastically Perturbed Retarded Semilinear Parabolic Equations

Abstract

We construct inertial manifolds for a class of random dynamical systems generated by retarded semilinear parabolic equations subjected to additive white noise. These inertial manifolds are finite-dimensional invariant surfaces, which attract exponentially all trajectories. We study the corresponding inertial forms, i.e., the restriction of the stochastic equation to the inertial manifold. These inertial forms are finite-dimensional Ito equations and they completely describe the long-time dynamics of the system under consideration. The existence of inertial manifolds and the properties of inertial forms allow us to show that under mild additional conditions the system has a global (random) attractor in the sense of the theory of random dynamical systems.