Exponential ergodicity for the stochastic hyperbolic sine-Gordon equation on the circle

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the Gibbs measure of the stochastic hyperbolic sine-Gordon equation on the circle is the unique invariant measure for the Markov process. Moreover, the Markov transition probabilities converge exponentially fast to the unique invariant measure in a type of 1-Wasserstein distance. The main difficulty comes from the fact that the hyperbolic dynamics does not satisfy the strong Feller property even if sufficiently many directions in a phase space are forced by the space-time white noise forcing. We instead establish that solutions give rise to a Markov process whose transition semigroup satisfies the asymptotic strong Feller property and convergence to equilibrium in a type of Wasserstein distance.