Negatively Invariant Sets and Entire Solutions

Negatively invariant compact sets of autonomous and nonautonomous dynamical systems on a metric space, the latter formulated in terms of processes, are shown to contain a strictly invariant set and hence entire solutions. For completeness the positively invariant case is also considered. Both discrete and continuous time systems are considered. In the nonautonomous case, the various types of invariant sets are in fact families of subsets of the state space that are mapped onto each other by the process. A simple example shows the usefulness of the result for showing the occurrence of a bifurcation in a nonautonomous system.     

Pullback Attracting Inertial Manifolds for Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems

In this paper we present an abstract approach to inertial manifolds for nonautonomous dynamical systems. Our result on the existence of inertial manifolds requires only two geometrical assumptions, called cone invariance and squeezing property, and two additional technical assumptions, called boundedness and coercivity property. Moreover we give conditions which ensure that the global pullback attractor is contained in the inertial manifold. In the second part of the paper we consider special nonautonomous dynamical systems, namely processes (or two-parameter semi-flows). As a first application of our abstract approach and for reason of comparison with known results we verify the assumptions for semilinear nonautonomous evolution equations whose linear part satisfies an exponential dichotomy condition and whose nonlinear part is globally bounded and globally Lipschitz.     

Existence and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Semilinear Wave Equations with Nonlinear Damping and Dynamical Boundary Condition

Our aim in this article is to study a nonautonomous semilinear wave equation with nonlinear damping and dynamical boundary condition. First we prove the existence and uniqueness of global bounded solutions having relatively compact range in the natural energy space. Then, by deriving an appropriate Lyapunov energy, we show that if the exponent in the ?ojasiewicz-Simon inequality is large enough (depending on the damping), then weak solutions converge to equilibrium.     

NOTES ON A STUDY OF VECTOR BUNDLE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS(Ⅱ)──PART 1

The study of linear and global properties of linear dynamical systems on vector bundles appeared rather extensive already in the past. Presently we propose to study perturbations of this linear dynamics. The perturbed dynamical system which we shall consider is no longer linear, while the properties to be studied will be still global in general. Moreover, we are intersted in the nonuniformly hyperbolic properties. In this paper, we set an appropriate definition for such perturbations. Though it appears somewhat not quite usual, yet has deeper root in standard systems of differential equations in the theory of differentiable dynamical systems. The general problem is to see which property of the original given by the dynamical system is persistent when a perturbation takes place. The whole content of the paper is devoted to establishing a theorem of this sort.     

Transversality between invariant manifolds of periodic orbits for a class of monotone dynamical systems

We consider a special class of monotone dynamical systems and show that in this special class the stable and unstable manifolds of two hyperbolic periodic orbits always intersect transversally. The proof is based on the existence of a family of positively invariant nested cones.This paper is dedicated to Jack Hale on the occasion of his 60th birthday.     

The effects of horizontal singular straight line in a generalized nonlinear Klein–Gordon model equation

In this paper, we investigate bounded traveling waves of the generalized nonlinear Klein–Gordon model equations by using bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to study the effects of horizontal singular straight lines in nonlinear wave equations. Besides the well-known smooth traveling wave solutions and the non-smooth ones, four kinds of new bounded singular traveling wave solution are found for the first time. These singular traveling wave solutions are characterized by discontinuous second-order derivatives at some points, even though their first-order derivatives are continuous. Obviously, they are different from the singular traveling wave solutions such as compactons, cuspons, peakons. Their implicit expressions are also studied in this paper. These new interesting singular solutions, which are firstly founded, enrich the results on the traveling wave solutions of nonlinear equations. It is worth mentioning that the nonlinear equations with horizontal singular straight lines may have abundant and interesting new kinds of traveling wave solution.     

NOTES ON A STUDY OF VECTOR BUNDLE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS(Ⅱ)──PART 1

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Nonexistence of invariant manifolds in fractional-order dynamical systems

Invariant manifolds are important sets arising in the stability theory of dynamical systems. In this article, we take a brief review of invariant sets. We provide some results regarding the existence of invariant lines and parabolas in planar polynomial systems. We provide the conditions for the invariance of linear subspaces in fractional-order systems. Further, we provide an important result showing the nonexistence of invariant manifolds (other than linear subspaces) in fractional-order systems.

     

Nonuniform Exponential Dichotomies and Lyapunov Regularity

The notion of exponential dichotomy plays a central role in the Hadamard–Perron theory of invariant manifolds for dynamical systems. The more general notion of nonuniform exponential dichotomy plays a similar role under much weaker assumptions. On the other hand, for nonautonomous linear equations v′ = A(t)v with global solutions, we show here that this more general notion is in fact as weak as possible: namely, any such equation possesses a nonuniform exponential dichotomy. It turns out that the construction of invariant manifolds under the existence of a nonuniform exponential dichotomy requires the nonuniformity to be sufficiently small when compared to the Lyapunov exponents. Thus, it is crucial to estimate the deviation from the uniform exponential behavior. This deviation can be measured by the so-called regularity coefficient, in the context of the classical Lyapunov–Perron regularity theory. We obtain here lower and upper sharp estimates for the regularity coefficient, expressed solely in terms of the matrices A(t).     

Dependence of Topological Conjugacies on Parameters

For impulsive differential equations, we establish the existence of invariant stable manifolds under sufficiently small perturbations of a linear equation. We consider the general case of nonautonomous equations for which the linear part has a nonuniform exponential dichotomy. One of the main advantages of our work is that our results are optimal, in the sense that for vector fields of class C ¹ outside the jumping times, we show that the invariant manifolds are also of class C ¹ outside these times. The novelty of our proof is the use of the fiber contraction principle to establish the smoothness of the invariant manifolds. In addition, using the same approach we can also consider linear perturbations.     

Well-Posedness, Instabilities, and Bifurcation Results for the Flow in a Rotating Hele�CShaw Cell

We study the radial movement of an incompressible fluid located in a Hele–Shaw cell rotating at a constant angular velocity in the horizontal plane. Within an analytic framework, local existence and uniqueness of solutions is proved, and it is shown that the unique rotationally invariant equilibrium of the flow is unstable. There are, however, other time-independent solutions: using surface tension as a bifurcation parameter we establish the existence of global bifurcation branches consisting of stationary fingering patterns. The same results can be obtained by fixing the surface tension while varying the angular velocity. Finally, it is shown that the equilibria on a global bifurcation branch converge to a circle as the surface tension tends to infinity, provided they stay suitably bounded.     

Multi-pulse jumping orbits and homoclinic trees in motion of a simply supported rectangular metallic plate

The global bifurcations in mode interaction of a simply supported rectangular metallic plate subjected to a transverse harmonic excitation are investigated with the case of the 1:1 internal resonance, the modulation equations representing the evolution of the amplitudes and phases of the interacting normal modes exhibit complex dynamics. The energy-phase method proposed by Haller and Wiggins is employed to analyze the global bifurcations for the rectangular metallic plate. The results obtained here indicate that there exist the Silnikov-type multi-pulse orbits homoclinic to certain invariant sets for the resonant case in both Hamiltonian and dissipative perturbations, which imply that chaotic motions may occur for this class of systems. Homoclinic trees which describe the repeated bifurcations of multi-pulse solutions are found. To illustrate the theoretical predictions, we present visualizations of these complicated structures and numerical evidence of chaotic motions.     

The Principal Floquet Bundle and Exponential Separation for Linear Parabolic Equations

We consider linear nonautonomous second order parabolic equations on bounded domains subject to Dirichlet boundary condition. Under mild regularity assumptions on the coefficients and the domain, we establish the existence of a principal Floquet bundle exponentially separated from a complementary invariant bundle. Our main theorem extends in a natural way standard results on principal eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of elliptic and time-periodic parabolic equations. Similar theorems were earlier available only for smooth domains and coefficients. As a corollary of our main result, we obtain the uniqueness of positive entire solutions of the equations in     

Stable Manifolds for Impulsive Equations Under Nonuniform Hyperbolicity

For impulsive differential equations, we establish the existence of invariant stable manifolds under sufficiently small perturbations of a linear equation. We consider the general case of nonautonomous equations for which the linear part has a nonuniform exponential dichotomy. One of the main advantages of our work is that our results are optimal, in the sense that for vector fields of class C ¹ outside the jumping times, we show that the invariant manifolds are also of class C ¹ outside these times. The novelty of our proof is the use of the fiber contraction principle to establish the smoothness of the invariant manifolds. In addition, using the same approach we can also consider linear perturbations.     

Dissipation and Compact Attractors

We present an approach to the study of the qualitative theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems. In finite dimensions, most of the success has been with the discussion of dynamics on sets which are invariant and compact. In the infinite dimensional case, the appropriate setting is to consider the dynamics on the maximal compact invariant set. In dissipative systems, this corresponds to the compact global attractor. Most of the time is devoted to necessary and sufficient conditons for the existence of the compact global attractor. Several important applications are given as well as important results on the qualitative properties of the flow on the attractor.     

Transversality for Cyclic Negative Feedback Systems

Transversality of stable and unstable manifolds of hyperbolic periodic trajectories is proved for monotone cyclic systems with negative feedback. Such systems in general are not in the category of monotone dynamical systems in the sense of Hirsch. Our main tool utilized in the proofs is the so-called cone of high rank. We further show that stable and unstable manifolds between a hyperbolic equilibrium and a hyperbolic periodic trajectory, or between two hyperbolic equilibria with different dimensional unstable manifolds also intersect transversely.     

Heteroclinic Connection of Periodic Solutions of Delay Differential Equations

For a certain class of delay equations with piecewise constant nonlinearities we prove the existence of a rapidly oscillating stable periodic solution and a rapidly oscillating unstable periodic solution. Introducing an appropriate Poincaré map, the dynamics of the system may essentially be reduced to a two dimensional map, the periodic solutions being represented by a stable and a hyperbolic fixed point. We show that the two dimensional map admits a one dimensional invariant manifold containing the two fixed points. It follows that the delay equations under consideration admit a one parameter family of rapidly oscillating heteroclinic solutions connecting the rapidly oscillating unstable periodic solution with the rapidly oscillating stable periodic solution.      

Gas Flows with Several Thermal Nonequilibrium Modes

We study gas flows with any finite number of thermal nonequilibrium modes. The equations describing such flows are a hyperbolic system with several relaxation equations. An important feature is entropy increase dictated by physics for any irreversible process. Under physical assumptions we obtain properties of thermodynamic variables relevant to stability. By the energy method we prove global existence and uniqueness for the Cauchy problem when the initial data are small perturbations of constant equilibrium states. We give a precise formulation of the fundamental solution for the linearized system, and use it to obtain large time behavior of solutions to the nonlinear system. In particular, we show that the entropy increases but stays bounded. The resulting asymptotic picture of nonequilibrium flows is in a pointwise sense both in space and in time.     

Periodic Solutions of Pendulum-Like Perturbations of Singular and Bounded $${\phi}$$-Laplacians

In this paper we study the existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions of pendulum-like perturbations of bounded or singular f{\phi}-Laplacians. Our approach relies on the Leray-Schauder degree and the upper and lower solutions method.     

Global Attractor for Impulsive Reaction-Diffusion Equation

In this paper, we consider a reaction-diffusion equation with nonsmooth nonlinearity whose solutions have impulse effects at fixed moments of time. We show how this object generates a nonautonomous multivalued dynamical system and prove the existence of a compact semiinvariant global attractor in the phase space. __________ Published in Neliniini Kolyvannya, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 319–328, July–September, 2005.