Smooth stable and unstable manifolds for stochastic partial differential equations

Jinqiao Duan, Kening Lu, Bjorn Schmalfuss

Published 2004-09-24Version 1

Invariant manifolds are fundamental tools for describing and understanding nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we present a theory of stable and unstable manifolds for infinite dimensional random dynamical systems generated by a class of stochastic partial differential equations. We first show the existence of Lipschitz continuous stable and unstable manifolds by the Lyapunov-Perron's method. Then, we prove the smoothness of these invariant manifolds.