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Orbital compactness and asymptotic behaviour of nonlinear parabolic systems with functionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Reinhard Redlinger
Reinhard Redlinger
Affiliation:
Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, 53705, U.S.A.
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Weakly coupled semilinear parabolic systems of the form with homogeneous boundary conditions are studied. The nonlinear function g: C([−r, 0] × Ω ℝn) → ℝn is assumed to be locally Lipschitz continuous with r≧0 a given real number and Ω ⊂ ℝm a bounded domain, , ut for t ≧ 0 is denned by ut (σ, ξ) = u(t + σ, ξ), − r ≦σ ≦ 0 ξ ∊Ω and A is a uniformly elliptic second order diagonal operator. Let u be a bounded classical solution. We first establish precompactness results for the orbit of u in several function spaces. Using these results and assuming that a Liapunov function V is known for the corresponding ordinary functional differential equation ż =g(zt), we then show under some general conditions that the limit set ω+ (as t→∞) of u consists of spatially homogeneous functions only. Moreover, ω+ is invariant with respect to z = g(z,) and V = 0 on ω+. The proof uses a Liapunov function for the full system whichis obtained from V via a simple construction (cf. (3.3)). The theory is illustrated with an example.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , 1987 , pp. 83 - 99
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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