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Continuity of pullback and uniform attractors

Dynamical Systems 2017-02-28 v2

Abstract

We study the continuity of pullback and uniform attractors for non-autonomous dynamical systems with respect to perturbations of a parameter. Consider a family of dynamical systems parameterised by a complete metric space Λ\Lambda such that for each λΛ\lambda\in\Lambda there exists a unique pullback attractor Aλ(t)\mathcal A_\lambda(t). Using the theory of Baire category we show under natural conditions that there exists a residual set ΛΛ\Lambda_*\subseteq\Lambda such that for every tRt\in\mathbb R the function λAλ(t)\lambda\mapsto\mathcal A_\lambda(t) is continuous at each λΛ\lambda\in\Lambda_* with respect to the Hausdorff metric. Similarly, given a family of uniform attractors Aλ\mathbb A_\lambda, there is a residual set at which the map λAλ\lambda\mapsto\mathbb A_\lambda is continuous. We also introduce notions of equi-attraction suitable for pullback and uniform attractors and then show when Λ\Lambda is compact that the continuity of pullback attractors and uniform attractors with respect to λ\lambda is equivalent to pullback equi-attraction and, respectively, uniform equi-attraction. These abstract results are then illustrated in the context of the Lorenz equations and the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.

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@article{arxiv.1601.07436,
  title  = {Continuity of pullback and uniform attractors},
  author = {Luan T. Hoang and Eric J. Olson and James C. Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07436},
  year   = {2017}
}
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