Asymptotic behavior of the growth-fragmentation equation with bounded fragmentation rate

Etienne Bernard (1) , Pierre Gabriel (2)

1 IGN - Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière [IGN]
2 LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles

We are interested in the large time behavior of the solutions to the growth-fragmentation equation. We work in the space of integrable functions weighted with the principal dual eigenfunction of the growth-fragmentation operator. This space is the largest one in which we can expect convergence to the steady size distribution. Although this convergence is known to occur under fairly general conditions on the coefficients of the equation, we prove that it does not happen uniformly with respect to the initial data when the fragmentation rate in bounded. First we get the result for fragmentation kernels which do not form arbitrarily small fragments by taking advantage of the Dyson-Phillips series. Then we extend it to general kernels by using the notion of quasi-compactness and the fact that it is a topological invariant.

Mots clés: Growth-fragmentation; long-time behavior; nonuniform convergence; positive semigroups; Dyson-Phillips series; quasi-compactness

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Etienne Bernard, Pierre Gabriel. Asymptotic behavior of the growth-fragmentation equation with bounded fragmentation rate. 2016. ⟨hal-01313817v1⟩