Forward omega limit sets of nonautonomous dynamical systems (Q2180359)

In the theory of global attractors for autonomous dynamical systems, the key object is the \(\omega\)-limit. The global attractor is in itself an \(\omega\)-limit set of a particular bounded set. In the nonautonomous framework, the usual generalization is the pullback \(\omega\)-limit It represents the analogous concept for pullback attractors. However, nonautonomous dynamical systems are far more difficulty than their autonomous counterpart, and one of these difficulties is that no single concept of attractor is sufficient to capture all of its features. Here is where the forward attractors come into play. In this paper, generalizing the results of two of their previous works [\textit{P. E. Kloeden}, J. Comput. Dyn. 3, No. 2, 179--189 (2016; Zbl 1366.34082); \textit{P. E. Kloeden} and \textit{M. Yang}, ``Forward attraction in nonautonomous difference equations'', J. Differ. Eq. Appl. 22, No. 8, 1027--1039 (2016; \url{doi:10.1080/10236198.2015.1107550})], the authors study the forward \(\omega\)-limit set. They consider the case of a dissipative nonautonomous dynamical system, that is, a two-parameter evolution process with a positively invariant absorbing family of closed and bounded subsets of a Banach space. Assuming that the system is asymptotically compact with respect to this family, and eventually continuous in its initial value (uniformly on bounded time sets independently of the initial time), they prove the asymptotic positive and negative invariances for such object. Furthermore, they present conditions under which an invariant family of nonempty compact sets is a forward attractor for a nonautonomous dynamical system.