Forward attractors and limit sets of nonautonomous difference equations

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Zoom (see add'l notes for link)
Speaker
Peter Kloeden – Universität Tübingen – kloeden@math.uni-frankfurt.dehttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_8vpFKgAAAAJ&hl=en
Organizer
Alex Blumenthal

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The  theory of nonautonomous dynamical systems has undergone  major development during the past 23 years since I talked  about attractors  of nonautonomous difference equations at ICDEA Poznan in 1998. 

Two types of  attractors  consisting of invariant families of  sets   have been defined for  nonautonomous difference equations, one using  pullback convergence with information about the system   in the past and the other using forward convergence with information about the system in the future. In both cases, the component sets are constructed using a pullback argument within a positively invariant  family of sets. The forward attractor so constructed also uses information about the past, which is very restrictive and  not essential for determining future behaviour.  

The forward  asymptotic  behaviour can also be described through the  omega-limit set  of the  system.This set  is closely  related to what Vishik  called the uniform attractor although it need not be invariant. It  is  shown to be asymptotically positively invariant  and also, provided  a future uniformity condition holds, also asymptotically positively invariant.  Hence this omega-limit set provides useful information about  the behaviour in current  time during the approach to the future limit.