Attractivity properties of α-contractions

It is known that if T:X → X is completely continuous where X is a Banach space, then point dissipative and compact dissipative are equivalent, and imply the existence of a maximal compact invariant set which is uniformly asymptotically stable and attracts bounded sets uniformly. If T is an α-contraction, it is not known whether point dissipative and compact dissipative are equivalent. However, it is known that if T is an α-contraction and compact dissipative, then there exists a maximal compact invariant set which is uniformly asymptotically stable and attracts a neighborhood of any compact set uniformly. In this paper we show that for most practical examples which give rise to α-contraction, point dissipative and compact dissipative are equivalent. For example, we show this is true for stable neutral functional differential equations, retarded functional differential equations of infinite delay, and strongly damped nonlinear wave equations. We conjecture that this should be true for almost any practical application which gives rise to an α-contraction.