Regular Global Attractors for Wave Equations with Degenerate Memory

Abstract

We consider the wave equation with degenerate viscoelastic dissipation recently examined in Cavalcanti, Fatori, and Ma, Attractors for wave equations with degenerate memory, J. Differential Equations (2016). Under certain extra assumptions (namely on the nonlinear term), we show the existence of a compact attracting set which provides further regularity for the global attractor and show that it consists of regular solutions.