Second order non-autonomous lattice systems and their uniform attractors (Q2415184)

Lattice dynamical systems (LDSs) arise naturally in a wide variety of applications, for instance, in propagation of nerve pulses in myelinated axons, electrical engineering, pattern recognition, image processing, chemical reaction theory, etc.. In each case, they have their own form, but in some cases, they appear as spatial discretizations of continuous partial differential equations. In this work the authors study the existence of the uniform global attractor for the following second-order nonautonomous LDS \[ \ddot{u}_{i}+(A_{1}\dot{u}_{1})_{i} +(A_{2}u)_{i}+f_{1i}\left(\dot{u}_{j}\, \vert \, j\in I_{i q_{1}}\right) +f_{2i}\left(u_{j}\, \vert \, j\in I_{i q_{2}}\right) = g_{i}(t) \] with \(t\in \mathbb{Z}^{n}, t> \tau, \tau\in \mathbb{R}\) and with initial data \[ \begin{aligned} u_{i}(\tau)&=u_{0i, \tau}\\ \dot{u}_{i}(\tau)&=u_{1i, \tau} \end{aligned} \qquad \left(i\in \mathbb{Z}^{n}\right), \] where \(A_{1} , A_{2}\) are linear operators, \(f_{1i} , f_{2i}\) are nonlinear functions, and \(g_{i}\) is an external term, to be determined later. In the second section of the paper the above nonautonomous LDS with almost periodic symbols is considered, where abstract assumptions on the linear and nonlinear parts of the system and some introductory results are presented. In Section 3, this nonautonomous LDS is written in abstract form in a suitable extended phase space, where the well-posedness of this system is established, a family of processes associated with this system is defined and the existence of a uniform absorbing set for this family of processes is verified. Finally, the uniform estimates on the tails of solutions with respect to initial data from the uniform absorbing set and the time symbol are introduced, where such estimates are needed to obtain the asymptotic compactness of the solution semigroup, then by the semigroup theory, the uniform global attractor is presented.