On Stationary Nonequilibrium Measures for Wave Equations

Abstract

In the paper, the Cauchy problem for wave equations with constant and variable coefficients is considered. We assume that the initial data are a random function with finite mean energy density and study the convergence of distributions of the solutions to a limiting Gaussian measure for large times. We derive the formulas for the limiting energy current density (in mean) and find a new class of stationary nonequilibrium states for the studied model.