Dimension of the global attractor for strongly damped nonlinear wave equation (Q1289038)

The author considers the nonlinear damped wave equation \[ \begin{cases} \partial^2_t u-\alpha \Delta\partial_t u-\Delta u=f(u,u_t) +g,\quad t>0,\;x\in \Omega,\\ u(x,0)= u_0(x),\;\partial_tu(x,0) =u_1(x). \end{cases} \tag{1} \] Here \(f\in C^1(\mathbb{R}^2, \mathbb{R})\) and \(g\in L^2(\Omega)\). The aim of the author is to prove the existence of a global attractor for (1) and to estimate its Hausdorff dimension. To this effect he imposes a Hilbert space setting on (1), e.g. one has \(\text{dom} (\Delta)=H^2 (\Omega)\cap H^1_0(\Omega)\), while the pair \((u,u_t)\) ranges over the Hilbert space \(H^1_0(\Omega)\times L^2(\Omega)\). In order to ensure global existence of solutions, rather serious conditions are imposed on the nonlinearity \(f(u,v)\): \(| f(u,v)|\leq k_0+ k_1| u|^{\delta_0}\), \(|\partial_u f(u,v)|\), \(| \partial_v f(u,v) |\leq k\), \(|\partial_u f(u_1,v)- \partial_uf(u_2,v) |\leq k| u_1-u_2 |^{\delta_1}\), \(|\partial_u f(u,v_1)- \partial_u f(u,v_2)|\leq k| v_1-v_2 |^{\delta_2}\), \(|\partial_v f(u,v_1)-\partial_v f(u,v_2) |\leq k| v_1-v_2 |^{\delta_3}\). There are some preparatory steps which among others secure that (1) is well posed in the choosen setting. The main steps then concern the semigroup \(S(t)\), \(t\geq 0\) associated with the flow induced by (1), and its properties. It is shown that \(S(t)\) is point dissipative and has a global attractor \(B\). In a last step, an upper bound for the Hausdorff dimension of \(B\) is obtained. A key tool used in the course of the arguments is a passage to equivalent norms.