Asymptotic behavior of extremal solutions and structure of extremal norms of linear differential inclusions of order three (Q2483271)

The author considers a linear differential inclusion \[ {dx\over dt}\in \{Ax: A\in M\}, \] where \(M\) is a bounded closed set of \(3\times 3\)-matrices. It is assumed that the Lyapunov exponent of this inclusion is zero and that no proper subspace in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) is invariant with respect to all matrices \(A\in M\). He proves that if all matrices \(A\in\text{conv}(M)\) are nonsingular, then there exists a single periodic solution \(x(t)\) on the surface \(S= \{x: v(x)= 1\}\) and all the extremal solutions of this inclusion with initial data on \(S\) tend to the closed curve \(\{x(t): t\geq 0\}\). Here \(v\) is a certain norm on \(\mathbb{R}^3\) which the author calls extremal.