Existence and Representation Theorems for a Semilinear Sobolev Equation in Banach Space
Existence and Representation Theorems for a Semilinear Sobolev Equation in Banach Space
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DOI:
10.1137/0503051
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发表时间:
1972-08
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2
通讯作者:
R. Showalter
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作者:
R. Showalter
An existence theory is developed for a semilinear evolution equation in Banach space which is modeled on boundary value problems for partial differential equations of Sobolev type. The operators are assumed to be measurable and to satisfy coercive estimates which are not necessarily uniform in their time dependence, and to satisfy Lipschitz conditions on the nonlinear term. Applications are briefly indicated. 1. Introduction. We shall consider the abstract Cauchy problem for the nonlinear evolution equation ////(t)u'(t) + (t)u(t) f(t, u(t)) in a separable and reflexive Banach space. The linear operators /(t) are assumed to be weakly measurable in and to satisfy nonuniform coercive estimates over the Banach space which permit them to degenerate for certain values of t. The family of linear operators &(t) are assumed to be weakly measurable in t. The nonlinear term f(t, u) is measurable in and Lipschitz in u. Three types ofsolution are considered weak, mild, and strong.A mild solution is (essentially) a weak solution which permits a certain integral representation, and we shall prove that these two notions differ by a measurability assumption. A strong solution is a weak solution for which each term in the equation belongs to a specified Hilbert space for almost every t. The plan of the paper is as follows. Section 2 contains some technical results and notation we shall use. These include measurability of vector- and operator- valued functions, Gronwall's inequality, and an elementary fixed-point theorem for Banach space-valued functions. The weak solution is defined in 3, where we obtain results on uniqueness, local existence and global existence under various hypotheses. These results are used in 4 to construct the linear propagator (which resolves the linear equation withf 0) and thereby to introduce the notion of a mild solution. We prove that mild solutions (local and global) exist with the same hypotheses as used for existence of weak solutions. Strong solutions are introduced in 5. We give sufficient conditions for a mild solution to be strong; these conditions are essentially that the operators ///(t) dominate the operators &(t). Finally we obtain independently a sufficient condition for the existence (and uniqueness) of a strong solution; this condition requires that the function f be dominated by the operators /(t).