Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics

Research Article

Asymptotic behaviour and attractors for a semilinear damped wave equation with supercritical exponent

Eduard Feireisla1 p1

a1 Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

We prove the existence of a global attractor for the problem

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where f is ‘coercive at infinity’ and satisfies the growth condition

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while g ϵL2(R3).

(Received September 29 1993)

(Revised March 07 1994)

Correspondence:

p1 Permanent address: Institute of Mathematics AVCR, Zitna 25, 115 67 PRAHA1, Czech Republic.