Periodic solutions of evolution \(m\)-Laplacian equations with a nonlinear convection term (Q925325)

The author shows the existence of time \(\omega\)-periodic solutions for the evolution \(m\)-Laplacian equation \[ u_t-\mathrm{div}(|\nabla u|^m \nabla u)+ \mathbf{b}(u)\cdot\nabla u=f(t)u^\alpha+h(x,t), \quad \text{in}\; \Omega\times \mathbb{R} \] with the Dirichlet boundary condition in the case of \(0\leq \alpha<m+1\), where \(m>1\), \(\mathbf{b}: \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}^N \) satisfies \(|\mathbf{b}(u)|\leq k|u|^\beta\) for some \(0\leq \beta\leq m-1\) and \(k>0\). The argument is based on the the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem. Under \(\partial\Omega\) is of \(C^2\) class and its curvature is nonpositive with respect to the outward normal, the estimation of \(\|\nabla u(t)\|_\infty\) of the periodic solutions is obtained.