Invariance of convex sets for non-autonomous evolution equations governed by forms

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDT082MaRDI QIDQ5494409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfgang Arendt, E. M. Ouhabaz

Publication date 28 July 2014

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1167

zbMATH Keywords

non-autonomous Robin boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Comparison principles in context of PDEs (35B51) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Abstract parabolic equations (35K90) Forms (bilinear, sesquilinear, multilinear) (47A07)

Abstract: We consider a non-autonomous form $fra:[0,T]imesVimesVoC$ where $V$ is a Hilbert space which is densely and continuously embedded in another Hilbert space $H$. Denote by $A(t)inL(V,V^{\prime })$ the associated operator. Given $fin{L}^2(0,T,V^{\prime })$, one knows that for each $u_{0}inH$ there is a unique solution $uin{H}^1(0,T;V^{\prime })cap{L}^2(0,T;V)$ of ${\displaystyle }$dot u(t) + A(t) u(t) = f(t), , , u(0) = u_0.${\displaystyle }$ %�egin{align*} %&dot u(t) + A(t)u(t)= f(t) %& u(0)=u_0. %end{align*} This result by J. L. Lions is well-known. The aim of this article is to find a criterion for the invariance of a closed convex subset $Conv$ of $H$; i.e. we give a criterion on the form which implies that $u(t)inConv$ for all $tin[0,T]$ whenever $u_{0}inConv$. In the autonomous case for $f=0$, the criterion is known and even equivalent to invariance by a result proved in cite{Ouh96} (see also cite{Ouh05}). We give applications to positivity and comparison of solutions to heat equations with non-autonomous Robin boundary conditions. We also prove positivity of the solution to a quasi-linear heat equation.

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