Estimates on the dimension of a global attractor for a semilinear dissipative wave equation on \(\mathbb{R}^N\) (Q1848985): Difference between revisions

The authors consider the following damped semilinear wave equation in \(\mathbb R^N\), \(N\geq 3\), \[ u_{tt}+\delta u_t-\phi(x)\Delta u+\lambda f(u)=\eta(x),\;\;u(x,0)=u_0(x),\;u_t(x,0)=u_1(x),\tag{1} \] where \(\delta>0\), the function \(\phi(x)\) is positive and grows at \(|x|\to\infty\) fast enough that \(g(x):=[\phi(x)]^{-1}\) belongs to \(L^{N/2}(\mathbb R^N)\), the nonlinearity \(\lambda f\) has a sublinear rate of growth and the external forces \(\eta(x)\) belong to the weighted Soblev space \(L^2_g(\Omega)\). Under these assumptions, the authors prove that problem (1) possesses a compact global attractor \(\mathcal A\) in the phase space \(\mathcal D^{1,2}(\mathbb R^N)\times L^2_g(\mathbb R^N)\), where \(\mathcal D^{1,2}\) is a closure of \(C_0^\infty(\mathbb R^N)\) in the metric \[ \|v\|_{\mathcal D^{1,2}}^2=\|\nabla v\|_{L^2(\mathbb R^N)}^2, \] verify that its Hausdorff dimension is finite and give the upper bounds for this dimension in terms of the eigenvalues of the operator \(\phi(x)\Delta\) in \(L^2(\mathbb R^N)\).