Longtime behavior of the Kirchhoff type equation with strong damping on \(\mathbb{R}^N\) (Q2462084)

The author considers a Kirchhoff type equation with strong damping written as \(u_{tt}-M(\left\| \nabla u\right\| ^{2})\Delta u-\Delta u_{t}+u+u_{t}+g(x,u)=f(x)\), posed in \(\mathbb R^{N}\times \mathbb R^{+}\).\ Here \( M(s)=1+s^{m/2}\), \(m\geq 1\), \(f\) belongs to \(L^{2}(\mathbb R^{N})\) and \(g\) is a nonlinear function which satisfies at least some \(p\)-growth condition with respect to \(s\). The first result of the paper proves an existence and uniqueness result for a solution of this problem, which is global in time and belongs to \(C(\left[ 0,\infty \right) ;H^{2})\cap C^{1}(\left[ 0,\infty \right) ;H^{1})\cap H^{1}(\left[ 0,\infty \right) ;H^{2})\cap H^{2}(\left[ 0,\infty \right) ;L^{2})\). Assuming some further hypotheses on the first-order partial derivatives of \(g\), the author proves that the underlying continuous semi-group of this problem has a global attractor in \( H^{2}\cap H^{1}\). The proof of the existence result follows the lines of the paper by \textit{M. Nakao} and the author [J. Differ. Equations 227, No. 1, 204--229 (2006; Zbl 1096.35024)]. It is based on Banach's fixed point theorem in an appropriate space-time functional space for \(T>0\). Then the author proves a uniform bound on \(\left\| u(t)\right\| _{H^{2}}^{2}+\left\| u_{t}(t)\right\| _{H^{1}}^{2}\), which implies that the unique solution is global in time. The proof of the main result is based on a decomposition of the semi-group and on the construction of estimates. The paper ends with the proof of some further properties of the semi-group: it has finite fractal and Hausdorff dimension. The author here quotes a result from \textit{J. Hale} [Asymptotic behavior of dissipative systems (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 25. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society) (1988; Zbl 0642.58013)].