Strongly damped wave equation in uniform spaces (Q2581708)

The goal of the authors is to investigate solvability and asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the semilinear Cauchy problem for the strongly damped wave equation \[ u_{tt}-\alpha\Delta u_t-\Delta u+\beta u_t=f(u)+g(x),\quad t>0,\;x\in\mathbb R^N\tag{1} \] \[ u(x,0)=u_0(x),\;u_t(0,x)=w_0(x),\quad x\in\mathbb R^N,\tag{2} \] where the nonlinear term grows like \(| u|^q\) with \(q<\frac{N+2}{N-2}\) if \(N\geq 3\). The authors show that (1)--(2) generates a dissipative semigroup \(S(t)\) on the corresponding phase space, which is a product of the locally uniform spaces. Existence of an absorbing set is established, which leads to the existence of a global attractor in a suitably defined metric space.