Periodic and almost periodic stability of solutions to degenerate parabolic equations (Q919534)

This paper is concerned with periodic and almost periodic behaviour of solutions to the following problem: \[ u'-\Delta v=f,\quad v\in \beta (u)\text{ in } (0,\infty)\times \Omega,\quad v=g_ 0\text{ on } (0,\infty)\times \Gamma_ 0, \] \[ \partial_ vv+p\cdot v=g_ 1\text{ on } (0,\infty)\times (\Gamma \setminus \Gamma_ 0),\quad u(0,)=u_ 0\text{ in } \Omega. \] Here \(u'=(\partial /\partial t)u\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \({\mathbb{R}}^ N\) (N\(\geq 1)\) with smooth boundary \(\Gamma\), \(\Gamma_ 0\) is a measurable subset of \(\Gamma\) with positive surface measure, p is a non-negative bounded measurable function on \(\Gamma\), \(\partial_ v\) denotes the outward normal derivative on \(\Gamma\), and \(\beta\) is a maximal monotone graph in \({\mathbb{R}}\times {\mathbb{R}}.\) The author first establishes existence theorems of periodic (respectively almost periodic) solutions of this problem and then discusses their asymptotic stability, provided that f and \(g_ i\) \((i=0,1)\) are periodic (respectively almost periodic) functions.