Wong–Zakai Approximations and Long Term Behavior of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Abstract

In this paper we study the Wong–Zakai approximations given by a stationary process via the Wiener shift and their associated long term pathwise behavior for the stochastic partial differential equations driven by a white noise. We prove that the approximate equation has a pullback random attractor under much weaker conditions than the original stochastic equation. When the stochastic partial differential equation is driven by a linear multiplicative noise or additive white noise, we prove the convergence of solutions of Wong–Zakai approximations and the upper semicontinuity of random attractors of the approximate random system as the size of approximation approaches zero.