In this article, we study the solvability of the nonlinear plate equation in for a large class of initial data. We prove the existence and uniqueness of local and global mild solutions in the framework of Besov -spaces. Our approach relies on time decay estimates in for the differential operators and being and the solution of the corresponding linear problem. We also prove the asymptotic stability of global solutions in the same setting.
The aim of this article is to analyze theoretically the following nonlinear plate equation which models the evolution of a vertical displacement of a plate under the action of rotational inertia effects
where , and The most simplified model of (1.1) is given by which describes small deflections of thin plates, with flexural rigidity coefficient under the action of a distributed transverse force acting on the plate per unit area (Denk & Schnaubelt, 2015). In the general model (1.1), the term is related to the rotational inertia effects in the plate, and corresponds to a dissipative term; in addition, is a real parameter measuring the strength of the nonlinearity in the elastic component (Banquet et al., 2022). The nonlinearity in (1.1) comes from a large class of physical problems, including the dynamics of stretched string, the ion sound waves in plasma, the description of shallow water waves, and other physical systems (see Banquet & Villamizar-Roa, 2020; Boussinesq, 1872). Model (1.1) can be deduced from the thermoelastic plate equations in where the heat conduction is described by the Fourier law, that is, considering
neglecting the temporal variations for temperature, we get which replaced in (1.2) implies (1.1). Equations (1.1) and (1.2) (in the case ) and related models including a complete dynamic between the displacement, thermal moment and heat flux have been analyzed in Banquet et al. (2017, 2022, 2023), Geredeli and Lasiecka (2013), Lasiecka et al. (2017, 2019), Muñoz-Rivera et al. (2021), and Racke and Ueda (2016, 2017, 2020) and references therein. Depending on whether the involved parameters are considered or not, the resulting models capture various types of thermoelastic plate dynamics. Furthermore, the qualitative behavior varies based on the domain in which the equations are formulated. In particular, in Racke and Ueda (2017) was considered (1.1) with and in place of with a given smooth function satisfying and and proved the existence of a global solution in the class and for small initial data in the class For and in Racke and Ueda (2017) the authors proved the existence of global solution of (1.1) in the class with and initial data with being small enough. Considering in (1.1) the action of a frictional displacement in place of and a polynomial nonlinearity (with ), in D’Abbicco (2017) was proved the existence of global solutions in the class provided the initial data be small enough. The semilinear plate equation with nonlinearities of type have been considered in da Luz and Charão (2009), Sugitani and Kawashima (2010). In Banquet et al. (2022), the authors analyzed the existence and uniqueness of global mild solutions for small initial data in -spaces, as well as the existence and uniqueness of global and local solutions in the framework of Bessel-potential spaces Explicitly, it was proved that for small initial data with and problem (1.1) with and has a unique global solution satisfying
In addition, for and satisfying some technical restrictions, in Banquet et al. (2022) it was proved that for small initial data in the class
for some positive parameters then problem (1.1) has a unique global solution Those results were partially extended for the nonlinear thermoelastic plates system (1.2) in Banquet et al. (2023), replacing the right-hand side of (1.2) by the nonlinear coupling There, the authors proved the existence and uniqueness of local solutions with initial data with and for global existence for (1.2) in the same framework is open. Recently, in Banquet et al. (2025) the authors analyzed the equation (1.1) with initial data in modulation spaces, including the existence and asymptotic stability of global solutions of the nonlinear problem.
An interesting question related to problem (1.1) is to investigate large classes of initial data where it is still possible to prove global existence of solutions. This is a relevant research topic, which has been the subject of analysis in different differential models including, among others, Schrödinger equations, Navier–Stokes system, semilinear heat and wave equations (see for instance Cazenave & Weissler, 1998; Ferreira & Pérez-López, 2020; Ferreira & Villamizar-Roa, 2006; Lemarie-Rieusset, 2002; Pecher, 2000; Planchon, 2000 and references therein). Therefore, wanting to move in this direction and taking into account the embedding and where stands for the class of Besov spaces, the novelty of this article is to analyze the local and global solvability of (1.1) considering initial data in for and Our analysis is based on obtaining time decay estimates in for the differential operators and being the solution of the corresponding linear problem, and a nonlinear operator associated to the nonlinearity. Subsequently, the local and global existence of solutions are based on a combination of the obtained linear and nonlinear time decay estimates and fixed point arguments.
This article is organized as follows. In Section 2, we establish some basic notations and establish the main results. In Section 3, we derive a set of time-decay estimates for the solution of (2.1) in the framework of Besov spaces, as well as to analyze product estimates in order to deal with the nonlinearity of problem (1.1). In Section 4, we prove the existence and uniqueness of local and global solutions, as well as the asymptotic stability of global solutions.
Notations and Main Results
Without loss of generality, from now on we consider . Before establishing the main results, we consider the corresponding linear problem associated to (1.1), which is given by
The solution of problem (2.1) is formally given by
where
Notice that
Thus, by using the Duhamel principle, the solution of (1.1) with initial data is given by
Solutions of (1.1) in the sense of (2.2) are called mild solutions. The main objective of this article is to analyze the existence of local and global mild solutions of (1.1) considering initial data in Besov spaces. We briefly recall some notations about Besov spaces (we refer the reader to Bergh and Löfström (1976) for more details and properties). Let us consider a function such that on and Then we define and thus, Moreover, we set for and denote the Fourier multiplier operators
where represents the inverse of the Fourier transform. Evidently, and we remark that
These functions provide the background to define the Besov spaces denoted by for and which are defined by the set
where
It holds that is a normed space with norm Moreover, is complete and therefore a Banach space. We recall that for and
An important point in the analysis of the existence of local and global solutions for (2.2) in the framework of Besov spaces is just the control of the nonlinearity in that class of function spaces; therefore, in order to get a suitable product estimate in Besov spaces, throughout the article we assume the following conditions (see Lemma 3.11 below): Let be an integer and and . Suppose that there exist numbers , such that
Consider and define . In the borderline case conditions (H1) and (H2) are automatically verified; moreover,
;
Thus, always is possible to choose such that (H1)–(H5) are verified, this means that we can always choose infinite values of index verifying (H1)–(H5).
Now we are in position to establish the main results of this article.
(Local existence) Let , , and such that and assume that the conditions (H1)–(H5) hold. Moreover, assume that and . If then there exists and a unique mild solution of (2.2) such that
(Global existence) Let , if or if and verifying the conditions (H1)–(H5). Moreover, assume that , and . Then, for small enough, there exists such that if
then there exists a unique mild solution of (2.2) such that
(Asymptotic stability). Assume the hypotheses on Theorem 2.3, and let be the solutions of (2.2) provided by Theorem 2.3 with initial data respectively. Then
if, and only if,
Considering in Theorem 2.2 we get the existence of local-in-time solutions in the class for and some provided the initial data belongs to In particular, taking Theorem 2.2 provides a local existence of (1.1) with a purely polynomial nonlinearity.
Results of local and global existence in some class of -spaces were obtained in Banquet et al. (2022). In our case, Theorems 2.2 and 2.3 cover the initial data in because the embedding In comparison with Banquet et al. (2022), the parameters that define the decay and the solution space are not the same; in this sense, ours results complement those in Banquet et al. (2022).
As a consequence of the used fixed point argument, solutions provided by Theorems 2.2 and 2.3 are continuously dependent with respect to the initial data.
Linear and Nonlinear Estimates
The aim of this section is to derive a set of time-decay estimates for the solution of (2.1) in the framework of Besov spaces, as well as to analyze product estimates in order to deal with the nonlinearity of problem (1.1). We recall that we are denoting by the linear operator defined by . Although the proofs share the same arguments, each operator has a differential symbol that must be carefully worked out; for this reason we show the most part of the details of the demonstrations.
Linear Estimates
Let Consider and with . Then, there is a constant depending only on , such that
Moreover, since that provided arguing as in (3.41) we also have
which implies
Now, let an integer. Then,
Thus,
On the other hand,
Thus,
Taking into account that there exists such that from (3.39) and (3.45), multiplying by and taking the norm, we obtain
Similarly, since for some from (3.42) and (3.46), multiplying by and taking the norm, we get
Finally, using complex interpolation, from (3.47) and (3.48) we arrive at (3.37).
Linear Estimates for Initial Data
Assume that and with and . Then, there exists a constant depending only on such that
for all and .
Notice that Thus,
Then, applying Lemma 3.2 we conclude the proof.
Assume that and with and . Then, there exists a constant such that
for all and .
Notice that using Lemma 3.1 with we obtain
In the last inequality we use that for all This finishes the proof of the first inequality of the lemma. On the other hand, since using Lemma 3.2 with we obtain
which finishes the proof of the lemma.
Assume that with and consider Then, there exists a constant such that
for all and .
Observe that
Therefore,
On the other hand
Thus we get
Now, consider then
Since we obtain
From (3.50) and (3.52), multiplying by and taking the norm, we arrive at
For the estimate on we have
Then, we obtain
From (3.51) and (3.54), multiplying by and taking the norm, we arrive at
The desired result follows from (3.53), (3.55) and complex interpolation.
Let and . Then, there exists a constant such that
for all and .
Notice that Thus,
In the last inequality we have used that for all Thus, (3.49) follows from Lemma 3.2. On the other hand, it holds that Thus,
In the last inequality we have used that for all Then, (3.57) follows from Lemma 3.5.
Let and . Then, there exists such that
for all and .
Notice that Then, using Lemma 3.3 with we obtain
On the other hand, notice that . From Lemma 3.4 with we get
Product Estimates
In this subsection we derive a product estimate which is key in the proof of existence results. Its proof follows the ideas of the product estimate in Ferreira and Pérez-López (2020).
(Product estimate)
Let such that and assume that given the conditions (H1)–(H5) are verified. Then,
for all
Even the product estimate proved in Wang et al. (2011), Lemma 4.1, includes some cases for no integer, it imposes among its conditions, that which rules out some cases included in our estimate (3.58); for instance, considering , , and , the inequality (3.58) is true for verifying
Existence of Solutions and Asymptotic Stability
Existence of Local Solutions. Proof of Theorem 2.2
For convenience in the written, we denote by
Let , , and as in Lemma 3.11. In addition, assume that and . Then
Notice that . Then, by Lemma 3.1 we obtain
Since we arrive at
Multiplying the last inequality by and taking the supremum on we arrive at the desired result.
Let , , and as in Lemma 3.11. In addition, assume that and . Then
Observe that . Then, by Lemma 3.2 we obtain
Since from Lemma 3.11 and the last inequality, we arrive at
Multiplying the last inequality by and taking the supremum on we arrive at the desired result.
Consider the space of initial data with norm
The proof of Theorem 2.2 is based on the Banach Fixed Point Theorem. For that, we consider the fixed point mapping defined by where
Consider where is the maximum of the constants appearing in Lemmas 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. We will show that is well-defined and is a contraction. Since we are interested in a local result, we assume that Therefore Now, from Lemmas 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.1 and 4.2 (making ), we obtain
Now, chose such that
Then, we arrive at
On the other hand,
and taking into account that
we get that is a contraction. Thus, the Banach Fixed Point Theorem implies that has a unique fixed point in which is a local solution of (2.2).
Existence of Global Solutions. Proof of Theorem 2.3.
For simplicity in writing, we use the following notation
Let , and as in Lemma 3.11. Moreover, assume that and . Then,
Notice that . Thus, from Lemma 3.3 and since we have
Using Lemma 3.11 and the last inequality, we obtain
which implies the desired result.
Let , , , and as in Lemma 3.11. Moreover, assume that , and . Then
Notice that . Thus, using Lemma 3.4 we have
From Lemma 3.11 and the last inequality, we arrive at
which implies the desired result. Now we are in position to use the Banach Fixed Point Theorem. For that, we consider the mapping
For suitable, we will prove that is well-defined and has a unique fixed point. Here, denotes the closed ball centered in and radius . From Lemmas 3.9, 3.10, 4.3 and 4.4, it holds
On the other hand, from Lemmas 4.3 and 4.4, we get
and since that
it follows that is a contraction. Thus, by the Banach Fixed Point Theorem, we conclude that has a unique fixed point which is the global solution of (2.2).
Asymptotic Stability. Proof of Theorem 2.4
In this subsection we prove Theorem 2.4. Let be two solutions of (2.2) with initial data respectively. Taking the difference between the integral equations (2.2) and computing the -norm we get
On the other hand, following the proof of Lemma 4.3 we have
For all
which implies that
Therefore, from (4.6)–(4.8), noting that and taking the in (4.4) we have
Working analogously, we can prove that
In order to prove the converse, we note that from Theorem 2.3
Therefore,
because by hypothesis. Similarly, we can prove that
Then, the proof of Theorem 2.4 is finished.
Footnotes
Acknowledgments
The third author has been supported by the Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Extensión of the Universidad Industrial de Santander and the Project 4210: Controlabilidad y problemas inversos de sistemas discretos.
Funding
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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Carlos Banquet
Jhean E Pérez-López
Élder J Villamizar-Roa
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