One-sided hyperbolicity via evolution maps (Q2189574)

The authors provide characterizations of the hyperbolicity of a nonautonomous one-sided dynamics defined by a sequence of linear operators in terms of the hyperbolicity of an associated evolution map defined on a Banach space of sequences. They consider a large family of spaces of sequences besides \(L^p\) spaces. Moreover, they discuss the general cases when the dynamics may be invertible only along the unstable direction and of a general nonuniform exponential behavior of the dynamics given by a sequence of norms instead of a single norm. Hyperbolicity plays an important role in stability theory of differential equations and dynamical systems. In particular, it gives rise to many topological, smooth and measurable properties as well as to many applications in various fields. Clearly the main advantage of the characterization of hyperbolicity in terms of evolution maps is that it transforms the original nonautonomous dynamics into the autonomous dynamics given by the evolution map. This confirms that is convenient to deal first with a given property for the evolution map and then to transfer it to the original dynamics. Note that there is a corresponding approach for the continuous-time setting using evolution semigroups (see, for instance the monograph [\textit{K.-J. Engel} and \textit{R. Nagel}, One-parameter semigroups for linear evolution equations. Berlin: Springer (2000; Zbl 0952.47036)]).