Uniform estimates of Gronwall type (Q710933)

This useful and interesting paper is motivated by the problem of infering uniform estimates from a modified version of the main result of [\textit{S. Gatti, V. Pata} and \textit{S. Zelik}, Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 70, No.~6A, 2337--2343 (2009; Zbl 1167.34366)], when the involved function \(\psi\) depends also on the parameter \(\varepsilon\). The result in [loc. cit.] is: Theorem: Let \(\psi: \mathbb{R}_+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+\) be an absolutely continuous function satisfying for every \(\varepsilon \in (0, \zeta]\) and almost every \(t \geq 0\) the differential inequality \[ \psi'(t) + \varepsilon \psi(t) \leq K \varepsilon^\alpha \left[\psi(t)\right]^\beta + C\varepsilon^{-\gamma}. \] Then there exists a constant \(R_0 > 0\) and an entering time \(t_0 = t_0(R_0) \geq 0\) such that \(\psi(t) < R_0\) \(\forall t \geq t_0\) whenever \(\psi(0) \leq R_0\). Both \(R_0\) and \(t_0\) can be explicitly calculated in terms of \(P = \{\zeta, \alpha, \beta, \gamma, K, C\}\). This generalization is relevant because, in application problems, uniform estimates are desired for certain energy functionals equivalent to such a function \(\psi\) that may depend on a parameter. This essentially requires Gronwall type inequalities, that predict blow-up in finite time of the involved unknown (parameter dependent) functions, which are established in this work. Several uniform estimates are obtained.