An attractor of a nonlinear system of reaction-diffusion equations in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and estimates of its \(\varepsilon\)-entropy (Q1974393)

The paper concerns the initial value problem for quasilinear parabolic systems in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) of the type \[ \partial_t u-a\Delta u+f(u)=g. \tag{1} \] It is shown that, under natural conditions on the nonlinearity \(f\), (1) generates a semigroup in \(W^{2,p}_b\) (if \(g\in L^p_{\text{loc}}\) and \(p>{n\over 2})\) and that there exists an attractor. Moreover, upper estimates (and, for a particular equation a lower estimate) of the Kolmogorov \(\varepsilon\)-entropy in \(W^{2,p}_{\text{exp}}\) are given. Here \(W^{2,p}_{\text{exp}}\) is the Sobolev space corresponding in the weighted Lebesgue space \(L^p_{\text{exp}}\) with norm \[ \|u\|^p= \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} e^{-|x|} \bigl|g(x)\bigr |^p dx. \]