Well-posedness for some third-order evolution differential equations: a semigroup approach (Q2672037)

In this article, the authors deal with the initial value problem, generated by the following third-order evolution equation: \[ u_{ttt}+Au+\eta A^{\frac{1}{3}}u_{tt}+\eta A^{\frac{2}{3}}u_t=f(t), \] where \(\eta>0\), \(X\) is a separable Banach space, \(A\colon D(A)\subset X \to X\) is an unbounded sectorial operator with a compact resolvent and for some \(\lambda_0>0\), \(Re\lambda>\lambda_0\) for all \(\lambda \in \sigma(A)\), where \(\sigma(A)\) is the spectrum of \(A\). Moreover, \(f\colon D(A^{\frac{1}{3}})\subset X \to X\) is a nonlinear function satisfying suitable growth conditions. It is proved that for \(0<\eta<1\), the above Cauchy problem is ill-posed from the point of view of the theory of semigroups of bounded linear operators. For the case \(\eta>1\), the authors prove a result on the existence and stability of solutions to the above problem. As an illustration of their results, the authors consider initial-boundary value problem with the Laplacian operator.