Attractors and global averaging of non-autonomous reaction-diffusion equations in \({\mathbb R}^N\) (Q1411243)

The authors consider the following nonautonomous reaction-diffusion equation in unbounded domain \(\mathbb R^n\) with the coefficients rapidly oscillating in time: \[ u_t=\sum_{i,j=1}^n a_{ij}(\omega t)\partial_{x_i}\partial_{x_j}u+f(\omega t,u) +g(\omega t,x), \tag{1} \] where the functions \(a_{ij}(z)\), \(f(z,u)\) and \(g(z,x)\) are assumed to be almost-periodic with respect to \(z:=\omega t\), \(\omega\) is a large parameter, and the matrix \(a_{ij} \) satisfies the uniform ellipticity assumption. Under the standard assumtions on the nonlinearity \(f\) and the external forces \(g\), which guarantee the dissipativeness of the problem in the phase space \(L^2(\mathbb R^n)\), the authors establish that the uniform attractors \(\mathcal A_\omega\) of the nonautonomous problem (1) tend as \(\omega\to\infty\) (in the sense of upper semicontinuity) to the global attractor of the limit averaged problem \[ u_t=\sum_{i,j=1}^n\bar a_{ij}\partial_{x_i}\partial_{x_j}u+\bar f(u)+\bar g(x), \] where \(\bar a_{ij}\), \(\bar f(u)\) and \(\bar g(x)\) are the averages of the almost-periodic functions \(a_{ij}(z)\), \(f(z,u)\) and \(g(z,x)\) with respect to \(z\) respectively.