Existence and stability of pullback exponential attractors for a nonautonomous semilinear evolution equation of second order

Abstract

We consider a nonautonomous semilinear evolution problem that models some sort of propagation problem in nonlinear elastic rods and nonlinear ion-acoustic waves. We investigate the existence and stability of a family of pullback exponential attractors for our problem under suitable growth and dissipativeness conditions. Moreover, we also prove the upper and lower semicontinuity of this family of pullback exponential attractors at time zero. As a particular case, we obtain the existence of the pullback attractor in an appropriate space, we prove its upper semicontinuity and, lastly, we obtain a regularity result of this pullback attractor.