Maximal regularity and global well-posedness for a phase field system with memory (Q2476466)

The author considers the following initial-boundary value problem for a phase field system with memory: \[ \begin{aligned} u_t + \frac{\ell}{2}\varphi_t = \int_{- \infty }^t {a_1 (t - s)\Delta u(s)} \,ds &\quad\text{in }J\times \Omega,\\ \tau \varphi _t = \int_{ - \infty }^t a_2 (t - s)\left[\xi ^2\Delta \varphi + \frac{\varphi - \varphi ^3}{\eta + u} \right](s)\,ds &\quad \text{in } J\times \Omega,\\ {\mathbf n}\cdot\nabla u = {\mathbf n}\cdot\nabla \varphi = 0 &\quad \text{on } J\times \partial \Omega,\\ u(0,x) = u_0 (x),\qquad \varphi(0,x) = \varphi_0 (x) &\quad \text{in }\Omega.\end{aligned} \] Here, \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega \), \(J = [0,T]\), \(T > 0\). The global well-posedness result is obtained by an energy estimate, provided that the space dimension \(n\) is less than \(3\).