Uniform exponential dichotomy and continuity of attractors for singularly perturbed damped wave equations (Q852030)

The authors consider a family of damped wave equations \[ u_{tt}+\eta\Lambda^{1/2}u_t+au_t+\Lambda u=f(u), \quad t>0,\,x\in\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^N \] depending on parameters \(\eta\geq 0\), where \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth domain, \(\Lambda\) denotes the negative Laplacian on \(\Omega\) satisfying Dirichlet boundary conditions and \(a>0\). For dissipative nonlinearities \(f\) satisfying appropriate growth conditions, these equations generate dissipative semigroups on \(H_0^1(\Omega)\times L^2(\Omega)\) with corresponding global attractors \(A_{\eta}\), \(\eta\geq 0\). It is shown that the family \(\{A_\eta\}_{\eta\geq 0}\) behaves upper and lower semi-continuously for \(\eta\searrow 0\). The analysis is based on exponential dichotomy estimates, which are uniform in the parameter \(\eta\), as well as continuity properties of local unstable manifolds corresponding to equilibria.