Regularity of invariant sets in semilinear damped wave equations (Q1040611)

Let \(A\) be a positive linear self-adjoint elliptic operator, \(f(x,u)\) a nonlinearity of the critical growth and \(\Omega \subset\mathbb R^3\) a possibly unbounded domain. The author proves that every compact invariant subset of the semiflow generated by the equation \(\varepsilon u_{tt}+u_t+Au=f(x,u)\) in \(H^1_0(\Omega )\times L^2(\Omega )\) is bounded in \(D(A)\times H^1_0(\Omega ).\) Using the obtained regularity results he proves the upper semi-continuity of the attractors to the equations as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) if \(f(x,u)\) is dissipative.