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Regular attractor for a non-linear elliptic system in a cylindrical domain
M. I. Vishika,
S. V. Zelikb a Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
b M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract:
The system of second-order elliptic equations
\begin{equation}
a(\partial_t^2u+\Delta_xu)-\gamma\partial_tu-f(u)=g(t), \quad
u\big|_{\partial\omega}=0, \enskip u\big|_{t=0}=u_0, \enskip (t,x)\in\Omega _+,
\tag{1}
\end{equation}
is considered in the half-cylinder
$\Omega_+=\mathbb R_+\times\omega$,
$\omega\subset\mathbb R^n$. Here
$u=(u^1,\dots,u^k)$ is an unknown vector-valued function,
$a$ and
$\gamma$ are fixed positive-definite self-adjoint
$(k\times k)$-matrices,
$f$ and
$g(t)=g(t,x)$ are fixed functions. It is proved under certain natural conditions on the matrices
$a$ and
$\gamma$, the non-linear function
$f$, and the right-hand side
$g$ that the boundary-value problem (1) has a unique solution in the space
$W^{2,p}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega_+,\mathbb R^k)$,
$p>(n+1)/2$, that is bounded as
$t\to\infty$. Moreover, it is established that the problem (1) is equivalent in the class of such solutions to an evolution problem in the space of “initial data” $u_0\in V_0\equiv\operatorname{Tr}_{t=0}W^{2,p}_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega_+,\mathbb R^k)$. In the potential case
$(f=\nabla _x P$,
$g(t,x)\equiv g(x))$ it is shown that the semigroup
$S_t\colon V_0\to V_0$ generated by (1) possesses an attractor in the space
$V_0$ which is generically the union of finite-dimensional unstable manifolds
$\mathscr M^+(z_i)$ corresponding to the equilibria
$z_i$ of
$S_t$ $(S_tz_i=z_i)$. In addition, an explicit formula for the dimensions of these manifolds is obtained.
UDC:
517.95
MSC: Primary
35J60; Secondary
35B40 Received: 20.11.1998
DOI:
10.4213/sm411