On attractors of generalized semiflows with impulses (Q1985317)

The theories of impulsive dynamical systems and of systems without uniqueness of solutions (or in which such uniqueness is not known) have received much attention in the past decade. An impulsive dynamical system is an evolution law that suffers impulses when it reaches a set of predetermined states, called impulsive set. The evolution law is typically represented by dynamical systems with the property of uniqueness of solution for each initial data, and each point in the impulsive set has a unique impulse (that is, a unique point to where the evolution \textit{jumps to}). In this paper, the authors deal with generalized semiflows, i.e., dynamical systems without the assumption of uniqueness of solutions, and an impulse multifunctions, i.e., each point in the impulse set may have many (even infinitely many) distinct impulses. They generalize the theory known from \textit{E. M. Bonotto} et al. [J. Differ. Equations 259, No. 7, 2602--2625 (2015; Zbl 1356.37042)] to the framework of generalized semiflows, defining the \textit{impulsive generalized semiflows} and proving results concerning the existence of global \(c\)-attractors and global attractors for such systems. Differently from what has been done in previous works, the authors of the present paper define a new condition, called \textit{condition} (T), to prove the invariance of the obtained global attractors. They compare this condition (T) with the \textit{tube conditions} found in [\textit{E. M. Bonotto} et al., J. Differ. Equations 259, No. 7, 2602--2625 (2015; Zbl 1356.37042)] and introduced by \textit{K. Ciesielski} [Bull. Pol. Acad. Sci., Math. 40, No. 4, 297--307 (1992; Zbl 0801.54034)], and with the conditions of \textit{S. Dashkovskiy} et al. [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 458, No. 1, 193--218 (2018; Zbl 1378.37120)]. To illustrate their results, they present several examples, one of which deals with the integrate-and-fire neuron model.