Global attractor for a wave equation with nonlinear localized boundary damping and a source term of critical exponent (Q1028631)

The authors discuss long-time behavior of hyperbolic flows generated by a semilinear wave equation with nonlinear boundary damping on a part of the boundary and nonlinear source of the critical Sobolev exponent. They prove the existence and regularity of a global compact attractor, and its finite fractal dimensionality. They develop a special version of Carleman's estimates and apply them in the context of abstract results on dissipative dynamical systems.