Pullback Attractors for a Reaction–Diffusion Equation in a General Nonempty Open Subset of ℝN with Nonautonomous Forcing Term in H−1

Abstract

The existence of minimal pullback attractors in [Formula: see text] for a nonautonomous reaction–diffusion equation, in the frameworks of universes of fixed bounded sets and that given by a tempered growth condition, is proved in this paper, when the domain [Formula: see text] is a general nonempty open subset of [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text]. The main concept used in the proof is the asymptotic compactness of the process generated by the problem. The relation among these families is also discussed.