Positive limit sets consisting of a single periodic motion (Q1822677)

A dynamical system \(\pi\) : \({\mathbb{R}}\times X\to X\) on a complete metric space X is said to be positively Lagrange stable if the positive orbit \(\gamma^+(x)\) through \(x\in X\) is relatively compact in X. This paper characterizes positively Lagrange stable motions of dynamical systems on a complete metric space for which the corresponding \(\omega\)-limit set consists of a single periodic motion. The authors give a complete solution to a question considered by G. R. Sell in a 1966 paper; they also extend (and correct) the results which Sell presented in that paper.