Well-posedness Of Evolution Equations Research Articles

Feedback theory to the well-posedness of evolution equations.

In this paper, we cross the boundary between semigroup theory and general infinite-dimensional systems to bridge the isolated research activities in the two areas. Indeed, we first give a chronological history of the development of the semigroup approach for control theory. Second, we use the feedback theory to prove the well-posedness of a class of dynamic boundary problems. Third, the obtained results are applied to the well-posedness of neutral equations with non-autonomous past. We will also see that the strong connection between semigroup and control theories lies in feedback theory, where different kinds of perturbations appear. This article is part of the theme issue 'Semigroup applications everywhere'.

Well-posedness of evolution equations with time-dependent nonlinear mobility: A modified minimizing movement scheme

AbstractWe prove the existence of nonnegative weak solutions to a class of second- and fourth-order nonautonomous nonlinear evolution equations with an explicitly time-dependent mobility function posed on the whole space {{{\mathbb{R}}^{d}}}, for arbitrary {d\geq 1}. Exploiting a very formal gradient flow structure, the cornerstone of our proof is a modified version of the classical minimizing movement scheme for gradient flows. The mobility function is required to satisfy – at each time point separately – the conditions by which one can define a modified Wasserstein distance on the space of probability densities with finite second moment. The explicit dependency on the time variable is assumed to be at least of Lipschitz regularity. We also sketch possible extensions of our result to the case of bounded spatial domains and more general mobility functions.