On nonuniform exponential dichotomy of evolution operators in Banach spaces

The problem of nonuniform exponential dichotomy of evolution operators in Banach spaces is considered. Connections between this concept and admissibility of the pair (C ₀,C ₀) are established. Generalizations to the nonuniform case of some results of Van Min, Räbiger and Schnaubelt ([MRS]) are obtained. It is shown that an implication from the uniform case is not true for nonuniform exponential dichotomy. The results are applicable for general time-varying linear equations with unbounded coefficients in Banach spaces.     

Smooth robustness of parameterized perturbations of exponential dichotomies

We establish the robustness of nonuniform exponential dichotomies in Banach spaces, under sufficiently small C¹-parameterized perturbations. Moreover, we show that the stable and unstable subspaces of the exponential dichotomies obtained from the perturbation are also of class C¹ on the parameter, thus yielding an optimal smoothness.     

Stability in delay difference equations with nonuniform exponential behavior

We study the stability under perturbations for delay difference equations in Banach spaces. Namely, we establish the (nonuniform) stability of linear nonuniform exponential contractions under sufficiently small perturbations. We also obtain a stable manifold theorem for perturbations of linear delay difference equations admitting a nonuniform exponential dichotomy, and show that the stable manifolds are Lipschitz in the perturbation.     

Stable manifolds for nonautonomous equations without exponential dichotomy

We consider nonautonomous ordinary differential equations v^′=A(t)v in Banach spaces and, under fairly general assumptions, we show that for any sufficiently small perturbation f there exists a stable invariant manifold for the perturbed equation v^′=A(t)v+f(t,v), which corresponds to the set of negative Lyapunov exponents of the original linear equation. The main assumption is the existence of a nonuniform exponential dichotomy with a small nonuniformity, i.e., a small deviation from the classical notion of (uniform) exponential dichotomy. In fact, we showed that essentially any linear equation v^′=A(t)v admits a nonuniform exponential dichotomy and thus, the above assumption only concerns the smallness of the nonuniformity of the dichotomy. This smallness is a rather common phenomenon at least from the point of view of ergodic theory: almost all linear variational equations obtained from a measure-preserving flow admit a nonuniform exponential dichotomy with arbitrarily small nonuniformity. We emphasize that we do not need to assume the existence of a uniform exponential dichotomy and that we never require the nonuniformity to be arbitrarily small, only sufficiently small. Our approach is related to the notion of Lyapunov regularity, which goes back to Lyapunov himself although it is apparently somewhat forgotten today in the theory of differential equations.     

Admissibility for nonuniform exponential contractions

We study the relation between the notions of nonuniform exponential stability and admissibility. In particular, using appropriate adapted norms (which can be seen as Lyapunov norms), we show that if any of their associated Lp spaces, with p∈(1,∞], is admissible for a given evolution process, then this process is a nonuniform exponential contraction. We also provide a collection of admissible Banach spaces for any given nonuniform exponential contraction.     

Robustness of nonuniform exponential dichotomies in Banach spaces

We give conditions for the robustness of nonuniform exponential dichotomies in Banach spaces, in the sense that the existence of an exponential dichotomy for a given linear equation x^′=A(t)x persists under a sufficiently small linear perturbation. We also establish the continuous dependence with the perturbation of the constants in the notion of dichotomy and of the “angles” between the stable and unstable subspaces. Our proofs exhibit (implicitly) the exponential dichotomies of the perturbed equations in terms of fixed points of appropriate contractions. We emphasize that we do not need the notion of admissibility (of bounded nonlinear perturbations). We also obtain related robustness results in the case of nonuniform exponential contractions. In addition, we establish an appropriate version of robustness for nonautonomous dynamical systems with discrete time.     

Integral conditions for exponential dichotomy: A nonlinear approach

We give new necessary and sufficient integral conditions for the existence of exponential dichotomy of skew-product flows. Our methods are based on the structure of the associated stable subspace and unstable subspace. We propose a nonlinear approach, extending the study of exponential stability in terms of integral conditions to the case of uniform exponential dichotomy. We apply the main results to the study of uniform exponential dichotomy of non-autonomous systems.     

Nonlinear criteria for the existence of the exponential trichotomy in infinite dimensional spaces

In this paper we obtain for the first time nonlinear conditions for the existence of the exponential trichotomy of skew-product flows in infinite dimensional spaces. We treat the most general case without any additional assumptions concerning the cocycle and without assuming a priori the existence of the projection families. We show that an inedit assembly of integral conditions imply the existence of the exponential trichotomy with all of its properties and we prove that the imposed conditions are also necessary. Our results generalize the previous studies on this topic and provide as particular cases many interesting situations, among which we mention the detection of the exponential trichotomy of general non-autonomous systems.     

Optimal regularity of robustness for parameterized perturbations

For exponential dichotomies defined by nonautonomous linear equations, we show that sufficiently small C¹-parameterized perturbations originate a family of exponential dichotomies of class C¹ in the parameter. We consider the general case of nonuniform exponential dichotomies, and also the general case of arbitrary growth rates of the form eλρ(t) where ρ is an arbitrary function. This includes the usual exponential behavior as a very special case when ρ(t)=t.     

On uniformity of exponential dichotomies for delay equations

It is shown that there cannot exist a uniform exponential dichotomy for any linear delay equation with a positive finite delay.     

Center manifolds for impulsive equations under nonuniform hyperbolicity

We establish the existence of smooth center manifolds under sufficiently small perturbations of an impulsive linear equation. In particular, we obtain the C¹ smoothness of the manifolds outside the jumping times. We emphasize that we consider the general case of nonautonomous equations for which the linear part has a nonuniform exponential trichotomy.     

Lyapunov sequences for exponential trichotomies

For a linear cocycle with discrete time, we give a complete characterization of nonuniform exponential trichotomies in terms of strict Lyapunov sequences. We also obtain inverse theorems by constructing explicitly strict Lyapunov sequences for each nonuniform exponential trichotomy. These are constructed in terms of Lyapunov norms, with respect to which the nonuniform behavior of the trichotomies becomes uniform. We also obtain a corresponding version of the results for cocyles over measure-preserving transformations.     

Global qualitative analysis of a quartic ecological model

In this paper we complete the global qualitative analysis of a quartic ecological model. In particular, studying global bifurcations of singular points and limit cycles, we prove that the corresponding dynamical system has at most two limit cycles.     

A new criterion for global robust stability of interval delayed neural networks

A novel criterion for the global robust stability of Hopfield-type interval neural networks with delay is presented. An example showing the effectiveness of the present criterion is given.     

Exponential stability of nonautonomous linear differential equations with linear perturbations by Liao methods

In this paper, the author considers, by Liao methods, the stability of Lyapunov exponents of a nonautonomous linear differential equations: with linear small perturbations. It is proved that, if A(t) is a upper-triangular real n by n matrix-valued function on R₊, continuous and uniformly bounded, and if there is a relatively dense sequence in R₊, say 0=T₀<T₁<?<Ti<?, such that

     

Schäffer spaces and exponential dichotomy for evolutionary processes

A very general characterization of exponential dichotomy for evolutionary processes in terms of the admissibility of some pair of spaces which are translation invariant (the so-called Schäffer spaces) is given. It includes, as particular cases, many interesting situations among which we note the results obtained by N. van Minh, F. Räbiger and R. Schnaubelt and the authors concerning the connections between admissibility and dichotomy.     

Dichotomy spectra and Morse decompositions of linear nonautonomous differential equations

Recently, the existence of Morse decompositions for nonautonomous dynamical systems was shown for three different time domains: the past, the future and—in the linear case—the entire time. In this article, notions of exponential dichotomy are discussed with respect to the three time domains. It is shown that an exponential dichotomy gives rise to an attractor-repeller pair in the projective space, which is a building block of a Morse decomposition. Moreover, based on the notions of exponential dichotomy, dichotomy spectra are introduced, and it is proved that the corresponding spectral manifolds lead to Morse decompositions in the projective space.     

Nonuniform dichotomic behavior: Lipschitz invariant manifolds for ODEs

We obtain global and local theorems on the existence of invariant manifolds for perturbations of nonautonomous linear differential equations assuming a very general form of dichotomic behavior for the linear equation. Besides some new situations that are far from the hyperbolic setting, our results include, and sometimes improve, some known stable manifold theorems.