Special Session 10: Sharp inequalities and nonlinear differential equations

Pseudo-traveling wave decomposition of time-global solutions for semilinear parabolic equations and its applications

Michinori ISHIWATA
Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
Japan
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Abstract:
This talk is concerned with the large-time asymptotics for general time-global solutions of semilinear parabolic problems defined in ${\Bbb R}^N$. The orbit of a solution could be noncompact in the natural energy space $H^1({\Bbb R})$ due to the unboundedness of ${\Bbb R}$. It is proved in this talk that every time-global solution decomposes into a superposition of ``pseudo-traveling waves`` whose profiles are stationary solutions. The analysis is done within the energy space together with the profile decomposition argument. Some applications to the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of time-global solutions which are treated e.g. in Chill-Jendoubi (2003), Cortazar-del Pino-Elgueta (1999) and Feireisl-Petzeltova (1997) are also given.