Elliptic-regularization of nonpotential perturbations of doubly-nonlinear flows of nonconvex energies: a variational approach

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Abstract: This paper presents a variational approach to doubly-nonlinear (gradient) flows (P) of nonconvex energies along with nonpotential perturbations (i.e., perturbation terms without any potential structures). An elliptic-in-time regularization of the original equation m(P)varepsilon is introduced, and then, a variational approach and a fixed-point argument are employed to prove existence of strong solutions to regularized equations. More precisely, we introduce a functional (defined for each entire trajectory and including a small approximation parameter varepsilon) whose Euler-Lagrange equation corresponds to the elliptic-in-time regularization of an unperturbed (i.e. without nonpotential perturbations) doubly-nonlinear flow. Secondly, due to the presence of nonpotential perturbation, a fixed-point argument is performed to construct strong solutions uvarepsilon to the elliptic-in-time regularized equations m(P)varepsilon. Here, the minimization problem mentioned above defines an operator S whose fixed point corresponds to a solution uvarepsilon of m(P)varepsilon. Finally, a strong solution to the original equation (P) is obtained by passing to the limit of uvarepsilon as varepsilono0. Applications of the abstract theory developed in the present paper to concrete PDEs are also exhibited.



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