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Alexandre N. Carvalho

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Inertial manifolds for the nonlocal parabolic problem

This paper provides an abstract framework for studying inertial manifolds associated with a class of nonlocal parabolic problems. In particular, by suitably modifying the nonlocal term outside the absorbing ball and changing the scale of time, we derive a corresponding spectral gap condition. As applications, we establish the existence of inertial manifolds for two classes of two-dimensional modified nonlocal parabolic equations on a square domain, whose diffusion coefficients depend on the $L^2$-norm of the solution and of its gradient, respectively.

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Robustness of dynamically gradient multivalued dynamical systems

In this paper we study the robustness of dynamically gradient multivalued semiflows. As an application, we describe the dynamical properties of a family of Chafee-Infante problems approximating a differential inclusion studied in [3], proving that the weak solutions of these problems generate a dynamically gradient multivalued semiflow with respect to suitable Morse sets.

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Shadowing for Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems

In this paper we extend to an infinite dimensional setting some results on the shadowing property that are known on finite dimensional compact manifolds without border and in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In fact, we show that if $\{\T(t):t\ge 0\}$ is a Morse-Smale semigroup defined in a Hilbert space with a global attractor $\mathcal{A}$ and non-wandering set given only by its equilibria, then $\T(1)|_{\mathcal{A}}:\mathcal{A}\to \mathcal{A} $ admits the Lipschitz Shadowing property. Moreover, for any positively invariant bounded neighborhood $\U\supset\mathcal{A}$ of the global attractor, the map $\T(1)|_{\U}:\U\to \U$ has the Hölder-Shadowing property. We obtain results related to the structural stability of Morse-Smale semigroups, that were only known on finite dimension and continuity of global attractors.

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Lower semicontinuity of pullback attractors for a non-autonomous coupled system of strongly damped wave equations

The aim of this paper is to study the robustness of the family of pullback attractors associated to a non-autonomous coupled system of strongly damped wave equations, given by the following evolution system $$\left\{ \begin{array}{lr} u_{tt} - Δu + u + η(-Δ)^{1/2}u_t + a_ε(t)(-Δ)^{1/2}v_t = f(u), &(x, t) \inΩ\times (τ, \infty),\\ v_{tt} - Δv + η(-Δ)^{1/2}v_t - a_ε(t)(-Δ)^{1/2}u_t = 0, &(x, t) \inΩ\times (τ, \infty),\end{array}\right.$$ subject to boundary conditions $$u = v = 0, \; (x, t) \in\partialΩ\times (τ, \infty),$$ and initial conditions $$u(τ, x) = u_0(x), \ u_t(τ, x) = u_1(x), \ v(τ, x) = v_0(x), \ v_t(τ, x) = v_1(x), \ x \in Ω, \ τ\in\mathbb{R},$$ where $Ω$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n \geq 3$, with the boundary $\partialΩ$ assumed to be regular enough, $η> 0$ is a constant, $a_ε$ is a Hölder continuous function satisfying uniform boundedness conditions, and $f\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ is a dissipative nonlinearity with subcritical growth. This problem is a modified version of the well known Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system. Under suitable hyperbolicity conditions, we obtain the gradient-like structure of the limit pullback attractor associated with this evolution system, and we prove the continuity of the family of pullback attractors at $ε= 0$.

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Bifurcation and hyperbolicity for a nonlocal quasilinear parabolic problem

In this article, we study a one-dimensional nonlocal quasilinear problem of the form $u_t=a(\Vert u_x\Vert^2)u_{xx}+νf(u)$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the interval $[0,π]$, where $0<m\leq a(s)\leq M$ for all $s\in \mathbb{R}^+$ and $f$ satisfies suitable conditions. We give a complete characterization of the bifurcations and of the hyperbolicity of the corresponding equilibria. With respect to the bifurcations we extend the existing result when the function $a(\cdot)$ is non-decreasing to the case of general smooth nonlocal diffusion functions showing that bifurcations may be pitchfork or saddle-node, subcritical or supercritical. We also give a complete characterization of hyperbolicity specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its presence or absence. We also explore some examples to exhibit the variety of possibilities that may occur, depending of the function $a$, as the parameter $ν$ varies.

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Autonomous and non-autonomous unbounded attractors in evolutionary problems

If the semigroup is slowly non-dissipative, i.e., its solutions can diverge to infinity as time tends to infinity, one still can study its dynamics via the approach by the unbounded attractors - the counterpart of the classical notion of global attractors. We continue the development of this theory started by Chepyzhov and Goritskii [CG92]. We provide the abstract results on the unbouded attractor existence, and we study the properties of these attractors, as well as of unbounded $ω$-limit sets in slowly non-dissipative setting. We also develop the pullback non-autonomous counterpart of the unbounded attractor theory. The abstract theory that we develop is illustrated by the analysis of the autonomous problem governed by the equation $u_t = Au + f(u)$. In particular, using the inertial manifold approach, we provide the criteria under which the unbounded attractor coincides with the graph of the Lipschitz function, or becomes close to the graph of the Lipschitz function for large argument.

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Continuity and topological structural stability for nonautonomous random attractors

In this work, we study continuity and topological structural stability of attractors for nonautonomous random differential equations obtained by small bounded random perturbations of autonomous semilinear problems. First, we study existence and permanence of unstable sets of hyperbolic solutions. Then, we use this to establish lower semicontinuity of nonautonomous random attractors and to show that the gradient structure persists under nonautonomous random perturbations. Finally, we apply the abstract results in a stochastic differential equation and in a damped wave equation with a perturbation on the damping.

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A Unified Theory for Inertial Manifolds, Saddle Point Property and Exponential Dichotomy

Inertial manifold theory, saddle point property and exponential dichotomy have been treated as different topics in the literature with different proofs. As a common feature, they all have the purpose of `splitting' the space to understand the dynamics. We present a unified proof for the inertial manifold theorem, which as a local consequence yields the saddle-point property with a fine structure of invariant manifolds and the roughness of exponential dichotomy. In particular, we use these tools in order to establish the hyperbolicity of certain global solutions for non-autonomous parabolic partial differential equations.

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Well-posedness for some third-order evolution differential equations: A semigroup approach

In this paper, we discuss the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem associated with the third-order evolution equation in time $$ u_{ttt} +A u + ηA^{\frac13} u_{tt} +ηA^{\frac23} u_t=f(u) $$ where $η>0$, $X$ is a separable Hilbert space, $A:D(A)\subset X\to X$ is an unbounded sectorial operator with compact resolvent, and for some $λ_0>0$ we have $\mbox{Re}σ(A)>λ_0$ and $f:D(A^{\frac13})\subset X\to X$ is a nonlinear function with suitable conditions of growth and regularity.

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Permanence of nonuniform nonautonomous hyperbolicity for infinite-dimensional differential equations

In this paper, we study stability properties of nonuniform hyperbolicity for evolution processes associated with differential equations in Banach spaces. We prove a robustness result of nonuniform hyperbolicity for linear evolution processes, that is, we show that the property of admitting a nonuniform exponential dichotomy is stable under perturbation. Moreover, we provide conditions to obtain uniqueness and continuous dependence of projections associated with nonuniform exponential dichotomies. We also present an example of evolution process in a Banach space that admits nonuniform exponential dichotomy and study the permanence of the nonuniform hyperbolicity under perturbation. Finally, we prove persistence of nonuniform hyperbolic solutions for nonlinear evolution processes under perturbations.

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Stability and hyperbolicity of equilibria for a scalar nonlocal one-dimensional quasilinear parabolic problem

In this work, we present results on stability and hyperbolicity of equilibria for a scalar nonlocal one-dimensional quasilinear parabolic problem. We show that this nonlocal version of the well-known Chafee-Infante equation bares some resemblance with the local version. However, its nonlocal characteristc requires a fine analysis of the spectrum of the associated linear operators, a lot more ellaborated than the local case. The saddle point property of equilibria is shown to hold for this quasilinear model.

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A non-autonomous bifurcation problem for a non-local scalar one-dimensional parabolic equation

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for a non-local non-autonomous scalar quasilinear parabolic problem in one space dimension. Our aim is to give a fairly complete description of the the forwards asymptotic behavior of solutions for models with Kirchoff type diffusion. In the autonomous we use the gradient structure of the model, some symmetry properties of solutions and develop comparison results to obtain a sequence of bifurcations of equilibria analogous to that seen in the model with local diffusivity. We give conditions so that the autonomous problem admits at most one positive equilibrium and analyse the existence of sign changing equilibria. Also using symmetry and our comparison results we construct what is called non-autonomous equilibria to describe part of the asymptotics of the associated non-autonomous non-local parabolic problem.

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A non-autonomous scalar one-dimensional dissipative parabolic problem: The description of the dynamics

The purpose of this paper is to give a characterization of the structure of non-autonomous attractors of the problem $u_t= u_{xx} + λu - β(t)u^3$ when the parameter $λ> 0$ varies. Also, we answer a question proposed in [11], concerning the complete description of the structure of the pullback attractor of the problem when $1<λ<4$ and, more generally, for $λ\neq N^2$, $2 \leq N \in \mathbb{N}$. We construct global bounded solutions , "non-autonomous equilibria", connections between the trivial solution these "non-autonomous equilibria" and characterize the $α$-limit and $ω$-limit set of global bounded solutions. As a consequence, we show that the global attractor of the associated skew-product flow has a gradient structure. The structure of the related pullback an uniform attractors are derived from that.

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