Global attractor for a strongly damped wave equation with fully supercritical nonlinearities (Q525585)

The authors study the existence of global attractor for a strongly damped nonlinear wave equation \(u_{tt} - \Delta u - \Delta u_t + h(u_t) + g(u) = f(x).\) The nonlinearities \(h(s)\) and \(g(s)\) are said of \textit{fully supercritical growth} in the following sense: {\parindent=0.7cm\begin{itemize}\item[--] Let \(h(s)=-\lambda s+\phi (s)\), with \(\phi \in C^1(\mathbb{R})\). There exists two constants \(K_0,C>0\) such that \[ K_0|s|^{q-1}\leq \phi' (s)\leq C\left(1+|s|^{q-1}\right),\qquad s\in\mathbb{R}, \quad q>p^*:=\frac{N+2}{N-2}. \] \item [--] \(g \in C^2(\mathbb{R})\). There exists three constants \(K_1,K_2,C>0\) such that \[ g' (s)\geq K_1|s|^{p-1}-K_2 ,\qquad |g''(s)|\leq C\left(1+|s|^{p-2}\right),\qquad s\in\mathbb{R}, \quad p>p^*. \] \end{itemize}} In the case when the nonlinearities \(h(u_t)\) and \(g(u)\) are of fully supercritical growth, which leads to that the weak solutions of the equation lose their uniqueness, and \(p=q\), by introducing the notion of limit solutions, stablishing that the subclass of limit solutions constitutes a generalized semiflow, and using the theory on the attractor of the generalized semiflow, the authors establish the existence of global attractor for the subclass of limit solutions of the equation in the natural energy space in the sense of strong topology.