Inertial manifolds and linear multi-step methods (Q1370359)

The author considers a sectorial evolution equation on a Hilbert space that satisfies a gap condition and approximates this equation in time with a strongly \(A(\alpha)\) stable linear multi-step method, which is at least first-order accurate. Two results are presented. The first gives existence and \(C^1\) convergence of an inertial manifold of the multistep method. The second result stems from the theory developed for ordinary differential equations, and has an important consequence: The one-step theory can be applied to give existence and convergence of various invariant sets of the multistep method.