On the structure of the global attractor for infinite-dimensional non-autonomous dynamical systems with weak convergence (Q1948045)

The authors discuss and extend Seifert's problem on the structure of global attractors in the framework of several infinite-dimensional nonautonomous dynamical systems, i.e., the question whether a dissipative and almost-periodic differential equation \[ x'=g(t,x) \] has an almost-periodic solution or not? Nonautonomous dynamics is formulated via skew-product flows and (weak) convergence serves as the basic assumption, i.e., the limit relation \(\lim_{t\to\infty}|\varphi(t,x_1,g)-\varphi(t,x_2,g)|=0\) for some \(L>0\) and for all \(|x_1|,|x_2|\leq L\), where \(\varphi(\cdot,x_0,g)\) solves the initial value problem \(x'=g(t,x)\), \(x(0)=x_0\). Beyond almost-periodic solutions the above problem is extended to further forms of recurrent solutions, among them those of (asymptotically) quasi-periodic, almost automorphic and recurrent type. In detail, functional differential equations (with finite delay under convergence, weak convergence and uniform dissipativity assumptions), evolution equations with a monotone generator and semilinear parabolic equations are considered.