Center manifold and stability for skew-product flows (Q1340461)

The authors develop a global \(C^ r\)-smooth center manifold and stability theory \((r\geq 1)\) for the weakly nonlinear extension (E) \(x'= A(y\cdot t)x+ F(x,y\cdot t)\) for a flow \(y\cdot t\) on a compact and connected \(C^ r\)-manifold \(Y\). So, assuming a so-called spectrum gap condition for Sacker-Sell's spectrum of the linear part of (E), the authors succeed in proving the existence of global \(C^ r\)-smooth center, center-stable \((M_{cs})\) and center-unstable \((M_{cu})\) manifolds for (E). Moreover, it is shown that there are smooth invariant foliations to \(M_{cu}\) and \(M_{cs}\). Note that the construction of the center-like manifolds basically follows ideas of [\textit{A. Vanderbauwhede} and \textit{S. A. Van Gils}, J. Funct. Anal. 72, No. 2, 209- 224 (1987; Zbl 0621.47050)].