Single Parameter Dissipativity and Attractors in DiscreteTirne Asynchronous Systems ∗

Discrete time nonautonomous dynamical systems generated by nonautonomous difference equations are formulated as discrete time skew—product systems consisting of cocycle state mappings that are driven by discrete time autonomous dynamical systems. Forwards and pullback attractors are two possible generalizations of autonomous attractors to such systems. Their existence follows from appropriate forwards or pullback dissipativity conditions. For discrete time nonautonomous dynamical systems generated by asynchronous systems with frequency updating components such a dissipativity condition is usually known for a single starting parameter value of the driving system. Additional conditions that then ensure the existence of a forwards or pullback attractor for such an asynchronous system are investigated here     

Existence and estimation of the Hausdorff dimension of attractors for an epidemic model

We prove the existence of pullback and uniform attractors for the process associated to a non‐autonomous SIR model, with several types of non‐autonomous features. The Hausdorff dimension of the pullback attractor is also estimated. We illustrate some examples of pullback attractors by numerical simulations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Attractors for discrete periodic dynamical systems

A mathematical framework is introduced to study attractors of discrete, nonautonomous dynamical systems which depend periodically on time. A structure theorem for such attractors is established which says that the attractor of a time-periodic dynamical system is the union of attractors of appropriate autonomous maps. If the nonautonomous system is a perturbation of an autonomous map, properties that the nonautonomous attractor inherits from the autonomous attractor are discussed. Examples from population biology are presented.     

Pullback attractors in nonautonomous difference equations

Nonautonomous difference equations are formulated as cocycles which generalize semigroups corresponding to autonomous difference equations. Pullback attractors are the appropriate generalization of autonomous attractors to cocycles. The existence of a pullback attractor follows when the difference equation cocycle has a pullback absorbing set. Results from the literature are outlined, including the construction of a Lyapunov function characterizing pullback attraction, and illustrated with several examples.     

Invariant manifolds, global attractors, almost automorphic and almost periodic solutions of non-autonomous differential equations

The paper is devoted to the study of non-autonomous evolution equations: invariant manifolds, compact global attractors, almost periodic and almost automorphic solutions. We study this problem in the framework of general non-autonomous (cocycle) dynamical systems. First, we prove that under some conditions such systems admit an invariant continuous section (an invariant manifold). Then, we obtain the conditions for the existence of a compact global attractor and characterize its structure. Third, we derive a criterion for the existence of almost periodic and almost automorphic solutions of different classes of non-autonomous differential equations (both ODEs (in finite and infinite spaces) and PDEs).     

Uniform exponential attractors for first order non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems

In Abdallah (2008, 2009) [2] and [3], we have investigated the existence of exponential attractors for first and second order autonomous lattice dynamical systems. Within this work, in l², we carefully study the existence of a uniform exponential attractor for the family of processes associated with an abstract family of first order non-autonomous lattice dynamical systems with quasiperiodic symbols acting on a closed bounded set.     

Attractors for Multi-valued Non-autonomous Dynamical Systems: Relationship,Characterization and Robustness

In this paper we study cocycle attractors, pullback attractors and uniform attractors for multi-valued non-autonomous dynamical systems. We first consider the relationship between the three attractors and find that, under suitable conditions, they imply each other. Then, for generalized dynamical systems, we find that these attractors can be characterized by complete trajectories, which implies that the uniform attractor is lifted invariant, though it has no standard invariance by definition. Finally, we study both upper and lower semi-continuity of these attractors. A weak equi-attraction method is introduced to study the lower semi-continuity, and we show with an example the advantages of this method. A reaction-diffusion system and a scalar ordinary differential inclusion are studied as applications.     

Asymptotic behaviour of reaction–diffusion equations with non-damped impulsive effects

In this paper we consider non-autonomous reaction–diffusion systems with impulsive effects at fixed moments of time from the point of view of the theory of global attractors. For a translation-compact nonlinear term which does not provide the uniqueness of the Cauchy problem, and for different classes of non-damped multivalued impulse perturbations, we construct a multivalued non-autonomous dynamical system and prove for it the existence of a compact global attractor.     

On the relation between two different concepts of pullback attractors for non-autonomous dynamical systems

For an abstract dynamical system, we establish, under minimal assumptions, the existence of D-attractor, i.e. a pullback attractor for a given class D of families of time varying subsets of the phase space. We relate this concept with the usual attractor of fixed bounded sets, pointing out its usefulness in order to ensure the existence of this last attractor in particular situations. Moreover, we prove that under a simple assumption these two notions of attractors generate, in fact, the same object. This is then applied to a Navier-Stokes model, improving some previous results on attractor theory.     

Pullback exponential attractors for evolution processes with the difference of 2 solutions lacking smoothing property

In this paper, we construct the pullback exponential attractors for evolution processes in which the difference of 2 solutions lacks the smoothing property. To do this, by the uniform squeezing property of the corresponding discrete process, we add the points to the pullback attractor such that every new set of it has the finite fractal dimension and pullback exponentially attracts every bounded subset of the phase space. As the applications, we establish the existence of pullback exponential attractors for non‐autonomous reaction‐diffusion equation without any restriction on the growing order of nonlinear term and non‐autonomous strongly damped wave equation in with critical nonlinearity.     

Mean-square random dynamical systems

The classical theory of random dynamical systems is a pathwise theory based on a skew-product system consisting of a measure theoretic autonomous system that represents the driving noise and a topological cocycle mapping for the state evolution. This theory does not, however, apply to nonlocal dynamics such as when the dynamics of a sample path depends on other sample paths through an expectation or when the evolution of random sets depends on nonlocal properties such as the diameter of the sets. The authors showed recently in terms of stochastic morphological evolution equations that such nonlocal random dynamics can be characterized by a deterministic two-parameter process from the theory of nonautonomous dynamical systems acting on a state space of random variables or random sets with the mean-square topology. This observation is exploited here to provide a definition of mean-square random dynamical systems and their attractors. The main difficulty in applying the theory is the lack of useful characterizations of compact sets of mean-square random variables. It is illustrated through simple but instructive examples how this can be avoided in strictly contractive cases or circumvented by using weak compactness. The existence of a pullback attractor then follows from the much more easily determined mean-square ultimate boundedness of solutions.     

Relation between Different Types of Global Attractors of Set-Valued Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems

The article is devoted to the study of the relation between forward and pullback attractors of set-valued nonautonomous dynamical systems (cocycles). Here it is proved that every compact global forward attractor is also a pullback attractor of the set-valued nonautonomous dynamical system. The inverse statement, generally speaking, is not true, but we prove that every global pullback attractor of an α-condensing set-valued cocycle is always a local forward attractor. The obtained general results are applied while studying periodic and homogeneous systems. We give also a new criterion of the absolute asymptotic stability of nonstationary discrete linear inclusions. Dedicated to our friend Professor Enrico Primo Tomasini on the occasion of his 55th birthdayMathematics Subject Classifications (2000) Primary: 34C35, 34D20, 34D40, 34D45, 58F10,58F12, 58F39; secondary: 35B35, 35B40.     

Pullback attractors for closed cocycles

In this article, using a result of Pata and Zelik (2007) [45], we derive a general result on the existence of pullback attractors for closed cocycles acting on a Banach space, where the strong continuity is replaced by a much weaker requirement that the cocycle be a closed map. As application, we prove the existence of the pullback attractor of a cocycle associated with the z-weak solutions of a non-autonomous two-dimensional primitive equations of the ocean.     

Upper semicontinuity of pullback attractors for multi-valued random cocycle

In this paper we study the upper semicontinuity of random attractors for multi-valued random cocycle when small random perturbations approach zero or small perturbation for random cocycle is considered. Furthermore, we consider the upper semicontinuity of random attractors for multi-valued random cocycle under the condition which the metric dynamical systems is ergodic.     

Attractors for partly dissipative lattice dynamic systems in weighted spaces

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the partly dissipative lattice dynamical systems in weighted spaces. We first establish the dynamic systems on infinite lattice, and then prove the existence of the global attractor in weighted spaces by the asymptotic compactness of the solutions. It is shown that the global attractors contain traveling waves. The upper semicontinuity of the global attractor is also considered by finite-dimensional approximations of attractors for the lattice systems.     

Asymptotic autonomous attractors for a stochastic lattice model with random viscosity

We study forward asymptotic autonomy of a pullback random attractor for a non-autonomous random lattice system and establish the criteria in terms of convergence, recurrence, forward-pullback absorption and asymptotic smallness of the discrete random dynamical system. By applying the abstract result to both non-autonomous and autonomous stochastic lattice equations with random viscosity, we show the existence of both pullback and global random attractors such that the time-component of the pullback attractor semi-converges to the global attractor as the time-parameter tends to infinity.     

Upper semicontinuous dependence of pullback attractors on time scales

Dynamical equations on time scales typically generate a nonautonomous process, even when the vector field function does not depend explicitly on time. Nonautonomous pullback attractors are thus the appropriate generalisation of autonomous attractors to time scale dynamics. The existence of a pullback attractor follows when the process has a pullback absorbing set. Assuming that a dynamical equation over a given time scale which has no rapidly increasing gaps satisfies a certain dissipativity condition, and thus possesses a pullback attractor, and that its solutions depend uniformly on initial data including the time scale, it is shown that the same dynamical equation over nearby time scales also has a pullback attractor, whose component sets converge upper semicontinuously to the corresponding component sets of the pullback attractor of the original system.     

A four-wing chaotic attractor generated from a new 3-D quadratic autonomous system

This paper introduces a new 3-D quadratic autonomous system, which can generate two coexisting single-wing chaotic attractors and a pair of diagonal double-wing chaotic attractors. More importantly, the system can generate a four-wing chaotic attractor with very complicated topological structures over a large range of parameters. Some basic dynamical behaviors and the compound structure of the new 3-D system are investigated. Detailed bifurcation analysis illustrates the evolution processes of the system among two coexisting sinks, two coexisting periodic orbits, two coexisting single-wing chaotic attractors, major and minor diagonal double-wing chaotic attractors, and a four-wing chaotic attractor. Poincaré-map analysis shows that the system has extremely rich dynamics. The physical existence of the four-wing chaotic attractor is verified by an electronic circuit. Finally, spectral analysis shows that the system has an extremely broad frequency bandwidth, which is very desirable for engineering applications such as secure communications.     

Exponential attractors for first-order lattice dynamical systems

In l², we investigate the existence of an exponential attractor for the solution semigroup of a first-order lattice dynamical system acting on a closed bounded positively invariant set which needs not to be compact since l² is infinite dimensional. Up to our knowledge, this is the first time to examine the existence of exponential attractors for lattice dynamical systems.