Global attractor for degenerate damped hyperbolic equations (Q2396850)

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of the solutins of the following problem: \[ \partial_{tt} u(x,t) +\beta u_t(x,t) =\mathcal{L} u(x,t) + f(u(x,t)) \quad x\in \Omega, \;t>0 \] \[ u(x,t) =0 \quad x\in \partial \Omega, \;t>0 \] and \[ u(x,0)=u_0(x), \;\;u_t(x,0) = u_1(x), \quad x\in \Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(\mathcal{L}\) is the operator \[ \mathcal{L} u = \sum_{i,j=1}^n \partial _{x_i} (a_{ij}\partial_{x_j} u) \] and \(a_{ij}=a_{ji}\). Under certain conditions, the authors first prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of the problem and then establish the existence of global attractors.