Construction of inertial manifolds by elliptic regularization (Q804793)

An inertial manifold for an evolution equation \(u'+Au=F(u)\) on a Hilbert space H is a globally exponentially attracting, positively invariant, finite dimensional Lipschitz manifold \({\mathcal M}\) in H. Sometimes \({\mathcal M}\) can be represented as the graph of a function \(\phi\) : PH\(\to QH\), where P is the orthogonal projection to the space corresponding to the first M eigenvalues \(\lambda_ 1,...,\lambda_ M\) of A and \(Q=I-P\). In that case, \(\Phi\) satisfies \(D\Phi (PF(p+\Phi)-Ap)=QF(p+\Phi)-A\Phi\) on PH. In this paper, the authors solve this first order PDE by considering the elliptic equation \(-\epsilon \Delta \Phi_{\epsilon}+D\Phi_{\epsilon}(PF(p+\Phi_{\epsilon})- Ap)+A\Phi_{\epsilon}=QF(p+\Phi_{\epsilon})\) for \(\epsilon >0\). It is shown that under certain conditions on A and F, \(\Phi_{\epsilon}\) converges to \(\Phi\), provided the `spectral gap' conditions: \(\lambda_{M+1}-\lambda_ M>K_ 1\) and \(\lambda_{M+1}>K_ 2\) are satisfied.