Continuity of attractors for a reaction-diffusion problem with nonlinear boundary conditions with respect to variations of the domain (Q2643106)

The semilinear parabolic problem with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions is considered. The problem is the following: \[ \begin{cases} u_t(x,t)= \Delta u(x,t)-au(x, t)+f(u(x,t)), &x\in\Omega,\;t>0,\\ \frac{\partial u} {\partial N}(x,t)=g(u(x, t)), &x\in\partial\Omega,\;t>0,\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is an open bounded region in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\). Under appropriate growth and dissipative conditions on the nonlinearities \(f\) and \(g\), the problem (1) has a global attractor. In this paper the dependence of the global attractor of (1) with respect to perturbations of the domain \(\Omega\) is studied. The attractor is shown to change continuously with respect to regular variations of the domain. The difficulty here is that the functional spaces change as the region changes.