Irreducibility and strong Feller property for stochastic evolution equations in Banach spaces

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to generalize to Banach spaces the well-known results for diffusions on Hilbert spaces obtained in [Peszat, S. and Zabczyk, J. (1995). Strong Feller property and irreducibility for diffusions on Hilbert spaces. Ann. Probab. 23(1): 157-172.]. More precisely, we are aiming to prove the strong Feller property and irreducibility of the solutions to a stochastic evolution equations (SEEs) in Banach spaces. We give sufficient conditions on the path space and the coefficients of the SEEs for these aforementioned properties to hold. We apply our result to investigate the long-time behavior of a stochastic nonlinear heat equations on $L^p$-space with $p>4$. Our result implies the uniqueness of the invariant measure, if it exists, for the stochastic nonlinear heat equations on $L^p$-space with $p>4$.