Inertial manifolds for the hyperbolic relaxation of semilinear parabolic equations (Q1733195)

This paper deals with the following problem, in a Hilbert space $H$: \[ \epsilon\partial^2_t u+\partial_t u+Au=F(u),\ u|_{t=0}=u_o,\ \partial_tu|_{t=0}=u^{\prime}_o\tag{1} \] where $\epsilon$ is a small parameter, $A:D(A)\to H$ is a positive self-adjoint operator in $H$, with compact inverse, with the eigenvalues $\{\lambda_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ enumerated in the non-decreasing order and the nonlinearity $F:H\to H$ is globally Lipschitz continuous, with Lipschitz constant $L$. The energy phase spaces $\mathcal{E}_{\epsilon}=H^1\times H$ if $\epsilon \not= 0$, and $\mathcal{E}_o= H^1\times H^{-1}$, are introduced. The main result is as follows: if the numbers $L,\epsilon\geq 0,$ and $N\in\mathbb{N}$ satisfy the conditions \[ \lambda_{N+1}-\lambda_N2L,\quad \frac{1}{\epsilon}\geq 3\lambda_{N+1}+\lambda_N, \] then there exists an $N$-dimensional inertial manifold $\mathcal{M}_{\epsilon}$ for equation (1) in the space $\mathcal{E} _{\epsilon}$ and this manifold is Lipschitz continuous with respect to $\epsilon$ at $\epsilon =0$ (Theorem 1.1). An estimate of the distance, in $\mathcal{E}_{\epsilon}$, between $\mathcal{M}_{\epsilon}$ and the inertial manifold $\mathcal{M}_0$ of the limit problem, as $\epsilon\to 0$, is obtained (Theorem 3.2). Under stronger conditions on $F$, $\mathcal{M}_{\epsilon}$ is absolutely normally hyperbolic (Theorem 4. 2). The above spectral conditions are optimal (Theorem 4.4).