Affiliation: | Institut für Mathematik I, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 2-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany Carlos Rocha ; Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal |
Abstract: | We consider global attractors of dissipative parabolic equations on the unit interval with Neumann boundary conditions. A permutation is defined by the two orderings of the set of (hyperbolic) equilibrium solutions according to their respective values at the two boundary points and We prove that two global attractors, and , are globally orbit equivalent, if their equilibrium permutations and coincide. In other words, some discrete information on the ordinary differential equation boundary value problem characterizes the attractor of the above partial differential equation, globally, up to orbit preserving homeomorphisms. |