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Gradient-like parabolic semiflows on BUC(ℝN)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Daniel Daners
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia e-mail: [email protected]
Sandro Merino
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected]

Extract

We prove that a class of weighted semilinear reaction diffusion equations on RN generates gradient-like semiflows on the Banach space of bounded uniformly continuous functions on RN. If N = 1 we show convergence to a single equilibrium. The key for getting the result is to show the exponential decay of the stationary solutions, which is obtained by means of a decay estimate of the kernel of the underlying semigroup.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1998

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