Global attractor for the Cahn-Hilliard system

Abstract

The Cahn-Hilliard system, a natural extension of the single Cahn-Hilliard equation in the case of multicomponent alloys, will be shown to generate a dissipative semigroup on the phase space ℋ = [H2(Ω)]m. Following Hale's ideas and based on the existence and form of the Lyapunov functional, our main result will be the existence of a global attractor on a subset of ℋ. New difficulties specific to the system case make our problem interesting.