On \(p_s(x)\)-Laplacian parabolic problems with non-globally Lipschitz forcing term (Q471865)

From the Introduction: ``Let us consider the following nonlinear PDE problem \[ \begin{cases} \frac{\partial u_s}{\partial t} (t) - \mathrm{div}(|\nabla u_s (t)|^{p_s(x)-2}\nabla u_s(t) + f(x, u_s(t)) = g,\quad t>0\\ u_s(0)=u_{0s},\end{cases}\tag{1} \] under Dirichlet homogeneous boundary conditions, where \(u_{0s} \in H := L^2 (\Omega)\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth domain in \(\mathbb R^n, n \geq 1\), \(g \in L^2 (\Omega)\), \(p_s (x) \in C^1 (\overline{\Omega})\) for all \(s \in \mathbb N\), \(2 < p \leq p_s (x) \leq a\), for all \(x \in \Omega\) and for all \(s \in \mathbb N\) and \(p_s \to p\) in \(L^\infty (\Omega)\) (\(p\) constant) as \(s \to \infty\). We assume that \(f : \Omega \times \mathbb R \to \mathbb R\) is a non-globally Lipschitz Carathéodory mapping satisfying the following conditions: there exist positive constants \(\ell, k, c_1\) and \(c_2 \geq 1\) such that \[ (f (x, s_1 ) - f (x, s_2 ))(s_1 - s_2 ) \geq -\ell |s_1 - s_2 |^2 ,\quad \forall x \in \Omega\text{ and }s_1 , s_2 \in \mathbb R, \tag{2} \] \[ c_2 |s|^{q(x)} - k \leq f (x, s)s \leq c_1 |s|^{q(x)} + k,\quad \forall x \in \Omega\text{ and }s \in \mathbb R, \tag{3} \] where \(q \in C(\overline{\Omega})\) with \(2 < q ^- := \inf_{x\in\Omega} q(x) \leq q ^+ := \sup_{x\in\Omega} q(x)\). For example, if \(\alpha_1 > 1\) and \(r > 2\), we observe that the function \(f : \Omega \times \mathbb R \to \mathbb R\) given by \(f (x, u) = \alpha_1 |u|^{r-2} u - u\) is not globally Lipschitz and satisfies the condition (2) with \(\ell= 1\) and the condition (3) with \(c_2 = 1, c_1 = \alpha_1\) and \(q(x) = r\) for all \(x \in I\). In this work we investigate in what way the parameter \(p_s (x)\) affects the dynamic of problem (1), analyzing the continuity properties of the flows and the global attractors with respect to the parameter \(p_s (x)\), when \(f\) is a locally Lipschitz function.''