Global analysis of a discrete nonlocal and nonautonomous fragmentation dynamics occurring in a moving process (Q2015587)

Summary: We use a double approximation technique to show existence result for a nonlocal and nonautonomous fragmentation dynamics occurring in a moving process. We consider the case where sizes of clusters are discrete and fragmentation rate is time, position, and size dependent. Our system involving transport and nonautonomous fragmentation processes, where in addition, new particles are spatially randomly distributed according to some probabilistic law, is investigated by means of forward propagators associated with evolution semigroup theory and perturbation theory. The full generator is considered as a perturbation of the pure nonautonomous fragmentation operator. We can therefore make use of the truncation technique [\textit{D. J. McLaughlin} et al., Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 20, No. 15, 1313--1323 (1997; Zbl 0907.45008)], the resolvent approximation [\textit{K. Yosida}, Functional analysis. 6th ed. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 123. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer. (1980; Zbl 0435.46002)], Duhamel formula [\textit{F. John}, Partial differential equations. 4th ed. Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 1. New York-Heidelberg-Berlin: Springer. (1982; Zbl 0472.35001)], and Dyson-Phillips series [\textit{R. S. Phillip}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 74, 199--221 (1953; Zbl 0053.08704)] to establish the existence of a solution for a discrete nonlocal and nonautonomous fragmentation process in a moving medium, hereby, bringing a contribution that may lead to the proof of uniqueness of strong solutions to this type of transport and nonautonomous fragmentation problem which remains unsolved.