Boundedness and Almost Periodicity of Solutions for a Class of Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Boundary Degeneracy

Abstract

In this paper the authors investigate the boundedness and almost periodicity of solutions of semilinear parabolic equations with boundary degeneracy. The equations may be weakly degenerate or strongly degenerate on the lateral boundary. The authors prove the existence, uniqueness and global exponential stability of bounded entire solutions, and also establish the existence theorem of almost periodic solutions if the data are almost periodic.

Keywords

Almost periodic solution / Bounded entire solution / Boundary degeneracy

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