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Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci.
Volume 27, Number 5, October 2022
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/wujns/2022275361
Published online 11 November 2022

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0 Introduction

This paper is devoted to pointwise estimate of following Cahn-Hilliard equation with inertial term:

{ η u t t + u t + Δ 2 u - Δ f ( u ) = 0 , x R 3 ,   t > 0 , u | t = 0 = u 0 ( x ) , u t | t = 0 = u 1 ( x ) . (1)

Here Δ is the usual Laplace operator, η>0 is a given constant. The nonlinear term f(u) has the form |u|θ+1 or |u|θ-q+1uq , where θ, q are positive integers and θ-q+10, θ1.

Equation (1) is closely related to the well-known Cahn-Hilliard system

u t + Δ 2 u - Δ f ( u ) = 0 (2)

System (2) is a hyperbolic equation with relaxation which describes phase separation of a binary mixture and u denotes the relative concentration of one phase. The fourth order differential operator of (2) makes its mathematical analysis more difficult than the corresponding second order equation[1]. Due to the physical background and mathematical difficulties, many mathematicians devoted their enthusiasm to the equation and got much qualitative behavior of the solution (see e.g. Refs.[2-8]). In order to model non-equilibrium decompositions caused by deep supercooling in certain glasses, Galenko et al[9] advised to append inertial term ηutt to (2). The unknown u reflects the relative concentration of one phase. The modified system (1) shows a good agreement with experiments performed on glasses[9,10]. For simplicity, we later suppose η=1.

The mathematical structure changed after the adjunction. Equation (1) is a hyperbolic equation with relaxation while (2) is a parabolic one, so they present different mathematical features. Eq. (1) has some mathematical difficulties because there is no regularization of the solution in finite time anymore. In order to get regularization, mathematicians often first study them with viscous term. Xu and Shi[11] got global existence with large initial data for any space dimension. Because of weak dissipation, previous work for (1) mainly focused on the so-called energy bounded solution and quasi-strong solution[12-14]. Wang and Wu[15] took advantage of frequency decomposition and energy method, and they got global existence and L2 decay rate of classical solution of (1) for the case of n3 with small initial data. Based on their work, Li and Mi[16] got pointwise decay estimate of the solution for n4. Their decay rates are closely related to the space dimension n. The solution decays faster if n is larger which makes it much more difficult to deal with lower space dimension. Obviously, compared with n4, n=3 reflects the reality. We make much more delicate analysis of the nonlinear term with convolution of the Green function, and get the same decay rate as those of Refs.[15, 16].

We introduce some notations in this paper . We denote C or C(x) a constant or constant depending on variable x. Lp, Wm,p denote usual Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces on Rn and Hm=Wm,2, with norms ||||Lp, ||||Wm,p, ||||Hm, respectively. α=(α1,α2,α3) is a multi-index with |α|=α1+α2+α3. Fourier transform to the variable x of function f(x,t) is f^(ξ,t), that is f^(ξ,t)=f(x,t)e-ixξdx, where i is the imaginary unit. Thus the inverse Fourier transform to the variable ξ of f^(ξ,t) is defined as

f ( x , t ) = F - 1 ( f ^ ) ( x , t ) = ( 2 π ) - n 2 f ^ ( ξ , t ) e i x ξ d ξ

The rest of this paper is arranged as follows. In Section 1, we give some preparing work. The estimate of the solution will be given in Section 2.

1 Preliminary Work

Our work is a follow-through of the global existence of (1), that is the Theorem 1.1 of Ref.[15]. We list it here.

Theorem 1[15] If initial data u0, u1 satisfy

| | u 0 | | H l + 1   W 1,1 + | | u 1 | | H l   L 1 ε   

for some small ε, l6, the Cauchy problem (1) admits a unique, global, classical solution u(x,t) satisfying:

| | x α u ( , t ) | | L 2 C ε ( 1 + t ) - 3 8 - | α | 4 ,     f o r   | α | l

| | x α u ( , t ) | | L C ε ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 - | α | 4 ,     f o r   | α | l - 2

The Green function of (1) is defined as

{ ( t t + t + Δ 2 ) G ( x , t ) = 0 ,     x R 3 ,   t > 0 , G | t = 0 = 0 , G t | t = 0 = δ ( x ) .

Then G^(ξ,t)=1λ+-λ-(eλ+t-eλ-t), where

λ + = 1 2 ( - 1 + 1 - 4 | ξ | 4 ) , λ - = 1 2 ( - 1 - 1 - 4 | ξ | 4 ) .

Using Duhamel principle, the solution of (1) can be represented as

u ( x , t ) = G ( , t ) * ( u 0 + u 1 ) + t G * u 0 + 0 t G ( , t - τ ) * Δ f ( u ) ( , τ ) d τ (3)

Operator * denotes the convolution of space variable x in this paper.

We will use frequency decomposition to estimate G(x,t). Set

χ 1 ( ξ ) = { 1 ,     | ξ | < ε 1 0 ,     | ξ | > 2 ε 1 , χ 3 ( ξ ) = { 1 ,    | ξ | > R + 1 0 ,    | ξ | < R

are smooth cut-off functions. Here 2ε1<R. Set χ2(ξ)=1-χ1(ξ)-χ3(ξ).

Denote BN(x,t)=(1+|x|41+t)-N , G^+(ξ,t)=eλ+tλ+-λ-,  G^-(ξ,t)=-eλ-tλ+-λ-, 

G ^ ± i ( ξ , t ) = χ i ( ξ ) G ^ ± ( ξ , t ) , G ^ i ( ξ , t ) = χ i ( ξ ) G ^ ( ξ , t )   f o r   i = 1,2 , 3 .

For G1(x,t),G2(x,t), we can use the results of Ref.[16] which are Proposition 3.1 and Proposition 3.2. We list them here.

Theorem 2[16] There exists positive constant C(N), such that

| x α G i ( x , t ) | C ( N ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B N ( x , t ) ,   i = 1,2 .

Since tG^=λ+eλ+t-λ-eλ-tλ+-λ-=1-e(λ--λ+)tλ+-λ-λ+eλ+t+eλ-t, using the same method of Theorem 2, we can get the same conclusion, that is

Theorem 3[16] There exists positive constant C(N), such that

| x α t G i ( x , t ) | C ( N ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B N ( x , t ) ,   i = 1,2 .

When |ξ| is large enough, using Taylor expansion, we get

G ^ 3 + ( ξ , t ) = ( - i 2 | ξ | - 2 + ο ( | ξ | - 4 ) ) e ( - 1 2 + i | ξ | 2 - i 8 | ξ | - 2 + ο ( | ξ | - 4 ) ) t (4)

G ^ 3 - ( ξ , t ) = ( i 2 | ξ | - 2 + ο ( | ξ | - 4 ) ) e ( - 1 2 - i | ξ | 2 + i 8 | ξ | - 2 + ο ( | ξ | - 4 ) ) t (5)

In order to get estimate of high frequency part, we need to understand the construction of G3(x,t), and we can use Lemma 2.5 in Ref.[17]. That is

Lemma 1[17] Assume that suppf^O(R)={ξ:|ξ|>R} with

| f ^ ( ξ ) | C ,    | ξ β f ^ ( ξ ) | C | ξ | - 1 - | β | ,    | β | 1

then there exist distributions f1(x),  f2(x), and a constant C such that

f ( x ) = f 1 ( x ) + f 2 ( x ) + C δ ( x )

where δ(x) is the Dirac function. Furthermore, for a positive integer 2N1>n+|α|,

| x α f 1 ( x ) | C ( 1 + | x | 2 ) - N 1 , | | f 2 | | L 1 C , s u p p f 2 { x ; | x | < 2 ε 0 }

with ε0 being sufficiently small.

From (4), (5) and Lemma 1, we have the following construction

Δ G 3 ( x , t ) = ( f 1 ( x ) + C δ ( x ) + f 2 ( x ) ) e λ t ,    R e λ - 1 4 (6)

where f1(x), f2(x) satisfy Lemma 1.

2 Decay Estimation

We use (3) and decay rate of G to estimate the solution u(x,t) step by step.

Theorem 4   If u0(x), u1(x) satisfy the condition of Theorem 1, and

| u 0 ( x ) | + | u 1 ( x ) | C ε ( 1 + | x | 4 ) - r , r > 3 4 ,

we have |xαG*(u0+u1)|C(N,r)ε(1+t)-3+|α|4Br(x,t), |α|l.

Proof   Here and afterwards we take N>2r>32. We divide the following integral into three parts.

R 3 B N ( x - y , t ) ( 1 + | y | 4 ) - r d y = ( | y | | x | 2 + | y | | x | 2 , | x | 4 t + | y | | x | 2 , | x | 4 t ) B N ( x - y , t ) ( 1 + | y | 4 ) - r d y : = I 1 + I 2 + I 3 (7)

If N1>34, we have

B N 1 ( x , t ) d x = d x ( 1 + t ) - 1 4 ( 1 + ( | x | ( 1 + t ) - 1 4 ) 4 ) N 1 ( 1 + t ) 3 4 ( 1 + t ) 3 4 d x ( 1 + x 4 ) N 1 C ( N 1 ) ( 1 + t ) 3 4 (8)

Thus

I 1 + I 2 C ( N ) B N ( x , t ) | y | | x | 2 ( 1 + | y | 4 ) - r d y + ( 1 + | x | 4 ) - r | y | | x | 2 , | x | 4 t B N ( x - y , t ) d y C ( N , r ) B N ( x , t ) + ( 1 + | x | 4 ) - r ( 1 + t ) 3 4 C ( N , r ) B r ( x , t ) + ( 1 + | x | 4 ) - r ( 1 + t ) r C ( N , r ) B r ( x , t ) (9)

When |x|4t, we have Br(x,t)12, then

I 3 ( 1 + | y | 4 ) - r d y C ( r ) C ( r ) B r ( x , t ) (10)

From (7), (9), (10) and Theorem 2, we have

| x α G i * ( u 0 + u 1 ) | C ( r , N ) ε ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t ) ,    i = 1,2 (11)

Suppose function vHl, |α|l, from (4), (5), we have

| x β x α G 3 ± * v | | ξ | R | ξ β ξ α G ^ 3 ± v ^ | d ξ C e - t 2 | ξ | R | ξ | | α | - | β | - 2 | v ^ | d ξ C e - t 2 | | | ξ | | α | - | β | | v ^ | | | L 2 | | ξ - 2 | | L 2 ( | ξ | R ) C e - t 2 | | v | | H l (12)

Take β=0, we have

| x α G 3 ± * v | C e - t 2 | | v | | H l (13)

If x0, take |β|=N, we have

| x α G 3 ± * v | C e - t 2 | x | - | β | | | v | | H l (14)

From (13), (14), we have

| x α G * v | C ( N ) e - t 4 | | v | | H l B N ( x , t ) (15)

We know u0Hl+1, u1Hl, from (15), we get

| x α G 3 * ( u 0 + u 1 ) | C ( N ) e - b t ε B N ( x , t ) (16)

From (11), (16), the theorem is proved.

Using the same method as that of Theorem 4, we also get the following theorem.

Theorem 5   If u0Hl+1, |u0(x)|Cε(1+|x|4)-4, r>34, we have

| x α t G * u 0 | C ( N , r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 ε B r ( x , t ) ,    | α | l .

Next, we begin to estimate the nonlinear term 0tG(,t-τ)*Δf(u)(,τ)dτ.

Set φα(x,t)=(1+t)-3+|α|4Br(x,t), M(t)=sup(x,τ)Rn×[0,t],|α|l|xαu(x,τ)|φα(x,τ). Then

| x α u ( x , τ ) | M ( t ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , τ ) ,    | α | l (17)

From (17), for |α|l, noticing θ1, we have

| x α f ( u ) ( y , τ ) | = | | α 1 | + | α 2 | + | α 3 | = | α | x 1 α 1 u x 2 α 2 u x 3 α 3 u θ - 1 | C M θ + 1 ( t ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 - | α | 4 B 2 r ( y , τ ) (18)

Theorem 6   For |α|l, we have

| x α 0 t G ( , t - τ ) * Δ f ( u ) ( , τ ) d τ | C ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t ) M θ + 1 ( t )

Proof   We first divide the following integral into four items.

0 t R n ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 B N ( x - y , t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ = ( 0 t 2 | y | | x | 2 + 0 t 2 | y | | x | 2 + t 2 t | y | | x | 2 + t 2 t | y | | x | 2 ) ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B N ( x - y , t - τ ) B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ : = I 1 + I 2 + I 3 + I 4 (19)

From (8), we have

I 1 C ( N ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + 2 4 B N ( x , t ) 0 t 2 ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 ( 1 + τ ) 3 4 d τ C ( N ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + 2 4 + 1 4 B N ( x , t ) ,

I 4 C ( 1 + t ) - 3 2 B r ( x , t ) t 2 t ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 ( 1 + t - τ ) 3 4 d τ C ( 1 + t ) - 3 2 + 1 2 B r ( x , t ) C ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) .

Noticing N>2r>32, from (8), we have

I 2 C ( 1 + t ) - 3 + 2 4 B r ( x , t ) 0 t 2 ( 1 + τ ) - n 2 ( 1 + τ ) 3 4 d τ C ( 1 + t ) - n + 2 4 ( 1 + t ) 1 4 B r ( x , t ) C ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) ,

I 3 C ( 1 + t ) - 3 2 B r ( x , t ) t 2 t ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 ( 1 + t - τ ) 3 4 d τ C ( 1 + t ) - 3 2 + 1 2 B r ( x , t ) C ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) .

From (19) and above four inequalities, we get

0 t R n ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 B N ( x - y , t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ C ( N , r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) (20)

From (20), (18), Theorem 2, we have

| x α 0 t G i ( , t - τ ) * Δ f ( u ) ( , t ) d τ | = | x α 0 t Δ G i ( , t - τ ) * f ( u ) ( , t ) d τ | C ( N , r ) M ( t ) θ + 1 ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t ) ,     i = 1,2 (21)

If N1>4r, from (20), we get

0 t R 3 e - b ( t - τ ) ( 1 + | x - y | 2 ) - N 1 ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ 0 t R 3 ( 1 + t - τ ) - 3 + 2 4 B 2 r ( x - y , t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ C ( r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) (22)

If |x-y|<2ε0 with ε0 small enough, we have

1 + | y | 4 1 + τ 1 2 + 1 2 + | x | 4 1 + τ - | x - y | 4 1 + τ 1 2 + 1 2 + | x | 4 1 + t - | 2 ε 0 | 4 1 + τ 1 2 ( 1 + | x | 4 1 + t )

Thus

0 t R n e - b ( t - τ ) f 2 ( x - y ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( y , τ ) d y d τ C ( r ) 0 t e - b ( t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B r ( x , τ ) d τ C ( r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) (23)

0 t e - b ( t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 δ ( x - y ) B 2 r ( y , τ ) d τ = 0 t e - b ( t - τ ) ( 1 + τ ) - 3 2 B 2 r ( x , τ ) d τ C ( 1 + t ) - 3 4 B r ( x , t ) (24)

From (22), (23), (24), (18), (6), we get

| x α 0 t G 3 ( , t - τ ) * Δ f ( u ) ( , t ) d τ | = | x α 0 t Δ G 3 ( , t - τ ) * f ( u ) ( , t ) d τ | C ( N , r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 M ( t ) θ + 1 B r ( x , t ) (25)

From (21), (25), the theorem is proved.

From (3), Theorem 4, Theorem 5, and Theorem 6, we get

| x α u ( x , t ) | C ( r ) ε ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t ) + C ( r ) M θ + 1 ( t ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t ) .

From the definition of M, we get

M ( t ) C ( r ) ( ε + M θ + 1 )

Because ε, M(0) are small enough, thus M(t) is bounded. Then we have

| x α u ( x , t ) | C ( r ) ( 1 + t ) - 3 + | α | 4 B r ( x , t )

Theorem 7   is the main conclusion of this paper.

Theorem 7   If u0, u1 satisfy ||u0||Hl+1 W1,1+||u1||Hl L1ε with ε small enough, l6,|u0(x)|+|u1(x)|C(r)ε(1+|x|4)-r with r>34, then the Cauchy problem of (1) exists a global classical solution u(x,t), furthermore  |xαu(x,t)|C(r)(1+t)-3+|α|4Br(x,t),   |α|l.

Remark 1   From (8), our result coincides with L2 and L decay rate of Refs.[14,15]. Furthermore, we move forward the solution's derivative order which can be estimated by L module.

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