On the closeness of attractors of initial and averaged nonlinear dissipative systems (Q1377973)

The method of averaging for ordinary differential equations is based on two known theorems of N. N. Bogolyubov on the closeness of solutions of initial and averaged systems on finite (but asymptotically large) and infinite time intervals. The difficulty in generalizing these theorems to partial differential equations is associated with the requirement that the nonlinear terms of the corresponding equation should satisfy the Lipschitz condition; in many cases, this is unrealistic. However, if we restrict ourselves to the class of nonlinear dissipative systems, i.e., systems that possess an absorbing set, then the Lipschitz condition can be satisfied in corresponding functional spaces if we take the initial data within the absorbing set. We can prove not only the closeness of solutions to initial and averaged systems both on finite and infinite time intervals, but also the closeness of the attractors of these systems.