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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300241703321

Autore

Haraux Alain

Titolo

The convergence problem for dissipative autonomous systems : classical methods and recent advances / / by Alain Haraux, Mohamed Ali Jendoubi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-23407-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, , 2191-8198

Disciplina

515.24

Soggetti

Dynamics

Ergodic theory

Partial differential equations

Functional analysis

Operator theory

Differential equations

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

Partial Differential Equations

Functional Analysis

Operator Theory

Ordinary Differential Equations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Some basic tools -- 3 Background results on Evolution Equations.- 4 Uniformly damped linear semi-groups.- 5 Generalities on dynamical systems.- 6 The linearization method.- 7 Gradient-like systems.- 8 Liapunov’s second method - invariance principle.- 9 Some basic examples.- 10 The convergence problem in finite dimensions -- 11 The infinite dimensional case -- 12 Variants and additional results.

Sommario/riassunto

The book investigates classical and more recent methods of study for the asymptotic behavior of dissipative continuous dynamical systems with applications to ordinary and partial differential equations, the



main question being convergence (or not) of the solutions to an equilibrium. After reviewing the basic concepts of topological dynamics and the definition of gradient-like systems on a metric space, the authors present a comprehensive exposition of stability theory relying on the so-called linearization method. For the convergence problem itself, when the set of equilibria is infinite, the only general results that do not require very special features of the non-linearities are presently consequences of a gradient inequality discovered by S. Lojasiewicz. The application of this inequality jointly with the so-called Liapunov-Schmidt reduction requires a rigorous exposition of Semi-Fredholm operator theory and the theory of real analytic maps on infinite dimensional Banach spaces, which cannot be found anywhere in a readily applicable form. The applications covered in this short text are the simplest, but more complicated cases are mentioned in the final chapter, together with references to the corresponding specialized papers.