Attractors in strongly monotone flows (Q1192767)

This work continues an investigation by \textit{M. Hirsch} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 11, 1-64 (1984; Zbl 0541.34026)] of attractors for a strongly monotone flow \(\varphi\) in a strongly ordered space \(X\) (with a partial order relation \(R\) on \(X\times X)\). Some important properties of attractors are established. It is shown that if \(K\) is a connected attractor for \(\varphi\) such that no two rest points in \(K\) can be related by \(R\) then there is an asymptotically order-stable rest point \(p\) such that \(K=p\). For analytic cooperative vector fields in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) conditions are given under which every stable rest point in an attractor is asymptotically stable.