Admissible inertial manifolds for neutral equations and applications

Abstract

We study the existence of admissible inertial manifolds for parabolic neutral functional differential equations of the form where the linear differential operator A is positive definite and self-adjoint with a discrete spectrum, the difference operator F is a bounded linear operator, and the delay nonlinear operator f is φ-Lipschitz for φ belonging to an admissible function space defined on . Our method is based on Lyapunov–Perron's equations, duality estimates in admissible spaces and F-induced trajectories. An application to heat transfer with delays in materials with memory is also given to illustrate our results.