Harnack inequality and applications for stochastic evolution equations with monotone drifts

As a Generalization to Wang (Ann Probab 35:1333–1350, 2007) where the dimension-free Harnack inequality was established for stochastic porous media equations, this paper presents analogous results for a large class of stochastic evolution equations with general monotone drifts. Some ergodicity, compactness and contractivity properties are established for the associated transition semigroups. Moreover, the exponential convergence of the transition semigroups to invariant measure and the existence of a spectral gap are also derived. As examples, the main results are applied to many concrete SPDEs such as stochastic reaction-diffusion equations, stochastic porous media equations and the stochastic p-Laplace equation in Hilbert space.

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