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Global solutions to a class of nonlinear damped wave operator equations
Boundary Value Problems volume 2012, Article number: 42 (2012)
Abstract
This study investigates the existence of global solutions to a class of nonlinear damped wave operator equations. Dividing the differential operator into two parts, variational and non-variational structure, we obtain the existence, uniformly bounded and regularity of solutions.
Mathematics Subject Classification 2000: 35L05; 35A01; 35L35.
1 Introduction
In recent years, there have been extensive studies on well-posedness of the following nonlinear variational wave equation with general data:
where c(·) is given smooth, bounded, and positive function with c'(·) ≥ 0 and c'(u0) > 0,u0 ∈ H1(R),u1(x) ∈ L2(R). Equation (1.1) appears naturally in the study for liquid crystals [1–4]. In addition, Chang et al. [5], Su [6] and Kian [7] discussed globally Lipschitz continuous solutions to a class one dimension quasilinear wave equations
where (x,t) ∈ R × R+, u0(x),ω0(x) ∈ R. Furthermore, Nishihara [8] and Hayashi [9] obtained the global solution to one dimension semilinear damped wave equation
Ikehata [10] and Vitillaro [11] proved global existence of solutions for semilinear damped wave equations in RNwith noncompactly supported initial data or in the energy space, in where the nonlinear term f(u) = |u|por f(u) = 0 is too special; some authors [12–14] discussed the regularity of invariant sets in semilinear wave equation, but they didn't refer to any the initial value condition of it. Unfortunately, it is difficulty to classify a class wave operator equations, since the differential operator structure is too complex to identify whether have variational property. Our aim is to classify a class of nonlinear damped wave operator equations in order to research them more extensively and go beyond the results of [12].
In this article, we are interested in the existence of global solutions of the following nonlinear damped wave operator equations:
where is a mapping, X2 ⊂ X1, X1, X2 are Banach spaces and is the dual spaces of X1, R+ = [0, ∞), u = u(x,t). If k > 0, (1.4) is called damped wave equation. We obtain the existence, uniformly bounded and regularity of solutions by dividing the differential operator G(u) into two parts, variational and non-variational structure.
2 Preliminaries
First we introduce a sequence of function spaces:
where H, H1, H2 are Hilbert spaces, X is a linear space, X1, X2 are Banach spaces and all inclusions are dense embeddings. Suppose that
In addition, the operator L has an eigenvalue sequence
such that {e k } ⊂ X is the common orthogonal basis of H and H2. We investigate the existence of global solutions of the Equation (1.4), so we need define its solution. Firstly, in Banach space X, introduce
where p = (p1, p2,..., p m ),p i ≥ 1(1 ≤ i ≤ m),
where | · | k is semi-norm in X, and . Similarily, we can define
Let .
Definition 2.1. Set (φ, ψ) ∈ X2 × H1, is called a globally weak solution of (1.4), if for ∀v ∈ X1, it has
Definition 2.2. Let Y1,Y2 be Banach spaces, the solution u(t, φ, ψ) of (1.4) is called uniformly bounded in Y1 × Y2, if for any bounded domain Ω1 × Ω2⊂Y1 × Y2, there exists a constant C which only depends the domain Ω1 × Ω2, such that
Definition 2.3. A mapping is called weakly continuous, if for any sequence {u n } ⊂ X2, u n ⇀ u0 in X2,
Lemma 2.1. [15]Let H2, H be Hilbert spaces, and H2 ⊂ H be a continuous embedding. Then there exists a orthonormal basis {e k } of H, and also is one orthogonal basis of H2.
Proof. Let I : H2 → H be imbedded. According to assume I is a linear compact operator, we define the mapping A : H2 → H as follows
obviously, A : H2 → H2 is linear symmetrical compact operator and positive definite. Therefore, A has a complete eigenvalue sequence {λ k } and eigenvector sequence such that
and is orthogonal basis of H2. Hence
it implies is also orthogonal sequence of H. Since H2 ⊂ H is dense, is also orthogonal sequence of H, so is norm orthogonal basis of H. The proof is completed.
Now, we introduce an important inequality
Lemma 2.2. [16] (Gronwall inequality) Let x(t), y(t), z(t) be real function on [a, b], where x(t) ≥ 0,∀a ≤ t ≤ b, z(t) ∈ C[a, b], y(t) is differentiable on [a, b]. If the inequality as follows is hold
then
3 Main results
Suppose that . Throughout of this article, we assume that
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(i)
There exists a function F ∈ C 1 : X 2 → R 1 such that
(3.1) -
(ii)
Function F is coercive, if
(3.2) -
(iii)
B as follows
(3.3)
for some .
Theorem 3.1. Setis weakly continuous, (φ, ψ) ∈ X2 × H1, then we obtain the results as follows:
(1) If G = A satisfies the assumption (i) and (ii), then there exists a globally weak solution of (1.4)
and u is uniformly bounded in X2 × H1;
(2) If G = A + B satisfies the assumption (i), (ii) and (iii), then there exists a globally weak solution of (1.4)
(3) Furthermore, if G = A + B satisfies
for some, then.
Proof. Let {e k } ⊂ X be the public orthogonal basis of H and H2, satisfies (2.3).
Note
From the assumption, we know , apply the Galerkin method to make truncate in :
there exists for any satisfies
for any v ∈ X n , it yields that
-
(1)
If substitute into (3.7), we get
combine condition (2.2) with (3.1), we get
consequently, we get
Assume φ ∈ H2, combine(2.2)with(2.3), we know {e n } is also the orthogonal basis of H1, then φ n → φ in H2, ψ n → ψ in H1, owing to H2 ⊂ X2 is embedded, so
due to the condition (3.6), from (3.9)and (3.10) we easily know
consequently, assume that
i.e. u n ⇀ u0in X2a.e. t > 0, and G is weakly continuous, so
By (3.8), we have
it indicates for any , it holds. Hence, for any v ∈ X2, we have
Consequently, u0 is a globally weak solution of (1.4).
Furthermore, by (3.9) and (3.10), for any R > 0, there exists a constant C such that if
then the weak solution u(t, φ, ψ) of (1.4) satisfies
Assume (φ,ψ) ∈ X2 × H1 satisfies (3.12), by H2 ⊂ X2 is dense. May fix φ n ∈ H2 such that
by (3.13), the solution {u(t, φ n , ψ)} of (1.4) is bounded in a.e. t > 0.
Therefore, assume u(t, φ n , ψ) ⇀ u in then u(t) is a weak solution of (1.4), it satisfies uniformly bounded of (3.13). So the conclusion (1) is proved.
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(2)
If , substitute into (3.7), we get
combine the condition (2.2) and (3.1), we have
consequently, we have
by the condition (3.3),(3.14)implies
where .
by Gronwall inequality [Lemma(2.2)], from (3.15) we easily know:
it implies that, for any 0 < T < ∞
now, use the same way as (1), we can obtain the result (2).
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(3)
If the condition (3.4) is hold, , substitute into (3.7), we can get
then
by (3.16), it implies that
consequently, for any 0 < T < ∞
it implies that u ∈ W2,2((0,T), H), the main theorem (3.1) has been proved.
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The author is very grateful to the anonymous referees whose careful reading of the manuscript and valuable comments enhanced presentation of the manuscript. Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10971148).
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Pan, Z., Pu, Z. & Ma, T. Global solutions to a class of nonlinear damped wave operator equations. Bound Value Probl 2012, 42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-2770-2012-42
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Keywords
- nonlinear damped wave operator equations
- global solutions
- uniformly bounded
- regularity