Approximate inertial manifolds for the sine-Gordon equation (Q1177295)

The study of the long time behaviour of the solution of the problem \[ u''+\alpha u'-\Delta u=j\sin u,\quad\text{ in } \Omega\subset R^ n,\quad n\leq 3, \] \[ u(x,t)=0\quad \text{ on } \partial\Omega,\quad u(x,0)=u_ 0,\quad u'(x,0)=u_ 1 \] is considered. The approximate inertial manifold (AIM) is a finite dimensional smooth manifold, such that all the orbits enter --- after a transient time --- a very thin neighbourhood of the manifold. The aim of the paper is to construct an infinite family of AIM approximating the orbits. The instrument used is a set of eigenfunctions of the problem \(\Delta w_ j=\lambda_ jw_ j\), the projectors \(P,Q\), \(p=Pu\), \(q=Qu\), \((u=p+q)\) and then the estimate of \(q\) and of its derivatives with respect to time.