Pullback Exponential Attractors for Nonautonomous Reaction Diffusion Equations in H01 ()
1. Introduction
Attractor’s theory is very important to describe the long time behavior of dissipative dynamical systems generated by evolution equations, and there are several kinds of attractors. In this article, we will study the existence of pullback exponential attractors (see [1]-[3]) for nonlinear reaction diffusion equation. This equation is written in the following form:
(1.1)
where
is a bounded smooth domain in
,
,
and there exist

such that
(1.2)
for all
.
The Equation of (1.1) has been widely studied. For the autonomous case, i.e.,
does not depend on the time, the asymptotic behaviors of the solution have been studied extensively in the framework of global attractor, see [4]-[6]. For the nonautonomous case, the asymptotic behaviors of the solution have been studied in the framework of pullback attractor, see [7]-[9]. Recently, the theory of pullback exponential attractor have been developed, see [1]-[3], and some methods are given to prove the existence of pullback exponential attractors.
In order to obtain the existence of pullback exponential attractors of (1.1), we will need the following theorem.
Theorem 1.1. ([3]) Let
be an uniformly convex Banach space,
be the set of all bounded subsets of
be a time continuous process in
. Then the process
exist pullback exponential attractors in
if the following conditions hold true:
(1) There exists an uniformly bounded absorbing set
, that is, for any
and
, there exists
such that
(1.3)
(2) There exist
, and a finite dimension subspace
, such that
(1.4)
(1.5)
(1.6)
for all
and
, where
is independent on the choice of
, and
is the norm in
,
is the identity operator,
is a bounded projector,
is the dimension of
.
2. Some Estimates of Equation (1.1)
In this section, we will derive some priori estimates for the solutions of (1.1) that will be used to construct pullback exponential attractors for the problem (1.1).
For convenience, hereafter let
be the norm of
and
an arbitrary constant, which may difference from line to line and even in the same line. We define
with scalar product
and norm
; let
and
denote the scalar product and norm of
and
for all
, set
is the first eigenvalue of
.
For the initial value problem (1.1), we know from [4]-[6] that for any initial datum
, there exists a unique solution
for any
.
Thanks to the existence theorem, the initial value problem is equivalent to a process
define by
.
In addition, we assume that the function
is translation bounded in
, that is
(2.1)
By (2.1), for
, we have
(2.2)
Lemma 2.1. ([7]-[9]) Assume that
satisfy (1.2) and (2.2),
be a weak solution of (1.1), then for any
, we have the following inequality:
(2.3)
and
(2.4)
Lemma 2.2. Assume that
satisfy (1.2) and (2.2),
be a weak solution of (1.1), then the following inequality holds for ![]()
(2.5)
Obviously, for any bounded
, there exist
, such that
for any
and
. (2.6)
Proof. Let
, then by (1.2), we get there exist
,
, such that
. (2.7)
Taking inner product of (1.1) with
in
and using (2.7), we get
. (2.8)
Multiply (1.1) by
, we have
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since
, we obtain
.
Combining (2.7), we get
. (2.9)
Thanks to Poincaré inequality
, we have
. (2.10)
Let
, by (2.9) and (2.10), we obtain
,
which imply
,
integrating, we get
,
using (2.3) and (2.4), we get the inequality (2.5).
Lemma 2.3. Assume that
satisfy (1.2) and (2.1),
be a weak solution of (1.1), then the following inequality holds for ![]()
, (2.11)
Here
for any
.
By the assumption (2.1) and for
, we get
. (2.12)
Proof. Multiply (1.1) with
, we obtain
. (2.13)
By (1.2) and Young’s inequality, we have
,
.
By (2.13), we get
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integrating and using (2.4), we get
. (2.14)
Multiply (1.1) with
, we obtain
.
By (2.1), we get
.
Using Young’s inequality
.
By the above inequality, we have
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integrating and using (2.12) and (2.14), we get (2.11) holds.
Lemma 2.1, lemma 2.2 and lemma 2.3 show that the process generated by the equation (1.1) have an uniformly pullback bounded absorbing set in
, that is
Theorem 2.4. Assume that
satisfy (1.2) and (2.1),
be a weak solution of (1.1), then the process generated by the equation (1.1) have an uniformly pullback bounded absorbing set
, that is, for any bounded set
, there exists
, such that
for any
.
In fact, using the same proof as in Lemma 2.3, we can get the following result.
Lemma 2.5. Assume that
satisfies (1.2),
is translation bounded in
, that is
be a weak solution of (1.1), then the process generated by the equation (1.1) have
an uniformly pullback bounded absorbing set
, that is, for any bounded set
, there exists
, such that
for any
.
3. Pullback Exponential Attractors
In this section, we will use Theorem 1.1 to prove that the process generated by Equation (1.1) exists a pullback exponential attractor.
First we assume that the function
is normal ([10]) in
, that is, for any
, there exists
such that
. (3.1)
Obviously,
is normal in
implying that
is translation bounded in
.
We set
, since
is a continuous compact operator in
, by the classical spectral theorem, there exist a sequence
,
and a family of elements
of
which are orthogonal in
such that
,
. Let
in
and
is a orthogonal projector. For any
, we write
.
Theorem 2.4. Assume that
satisfies (1.2),
is translation bounded in
and (3.1) holds, then the process generated by the equation (1.1) have a pullback exponential attractor.
Next, we will verify that the process generated by (1.1) satisfy all the conditions of Theorem 1.1.
Proof. By Theorem 2.4, there exists
, such that
for any
. Let
, we obtain
is also an uniformly pullback bounded absorbing set in
and
for any
.
We set
,
to be solutions associated with Equation (1.1) with initial data
, since
is the uniformly pullback bounded absorbing set in
, so there exists
such that
,
Let
, by (1.1), we get
(3.2)
Taking inner product of (3.2) with
in
, we have
(3.3)
Taking into account (1.2) and Holder inequality, it is immediate to see that
,
and
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By Lemma 2.5, we get
(3.4)
Using (3.3), we obtain
, hence
. (3.5)
Let
,
be the project in
. Taking inner product of (3.2) with
in
, we have
. (3.6)
.
Taking into (3.4) account, we obtain
,
Using the Poincaré inequality
, we get
, by Gronwall’s Lemma, we have
. Using (3.5), we get
. (3.7)
Let
,
be the project in
. Taking inner product of (1.1) with
, we get
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Since
,
, and by Poincaré inequality
, we have
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By Gronwall’s lemma, we get
.
By (3.1), we obtain that there exists
, such that
for any
, and for any
, there exists
, such that
, so we get
and
, we have
(3.8)
Let
, by (3.5), we get
(3.9)
Since
, for
, from (3.7) and (3.8), there exist
,
such that
(3.10)
(3.11)
By Theorem 2.4 and (3.9)-(3.11), we know that the process
generated by (1.1) satisfy all the conditions of Theorem 1.1.
Funds
This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (11261027) and Longyuan youth innovative talents support programs of 2014, and the innovation Funds of principal (LZCU-XZ2014-05).