The parameterization method for invariant manifolds. III: Overview and applications (Q2575613)

The paper is a tutorial on ``the parameterization method'', a technique recently introduced by the authors [``The parameterization method for invariant manifolds I: Manifolds associated to non-resonant subspaces'', Indiana Univ. Math. J. 52, 283--328 (2003; Zbl 1034.37016); ``II: Regularity with respect to parameters'', Indiana Univ. Math. J. 52, 329--360 (2003; Zbl 1034.37017)] to study invariant manifolds of dynamical systems. The methods leads to new results on existence of invariant manifolds, their regularity, and dependence on parameters. The parameterization method allows to establish the existence of smooth invariant manifolds associated to linear subspaces invariant by linearization which satisfy some non-resonant conditions. A novelty is that the invariant linear subspaces need not be spectral subspaces and need not have an invariant complement. The paper presents the main geometric ideas and invariant objects obtained, both for dynamical systems given by maps and by ordinary differential equations, as well as the main technical tools (Banach spaces, differentiability of composition operators, implicit function and fixed point theorems, cohomology equations). The main paper contents relates to several applications of the parameterization method and can be viewed from the titles listed below. 1. Analytic one-dimensional stable manifolds. 2. One-dimensional stable directions around periodic orbits of analytic differential equations. 3. A \(C^0\) invariant stable manifold theorem. 4. \(C^r\) One-dimensional invariant manifolds. 5. A \(C^0\) slow manifold theorem. 6. Non-resonant invariant manifolds for maps. 7. Non-resonant invariant manifolds for differential equations. Two appendices with comments on cohomology equations, non-uniqueness of invariant manifolds, and historical remarks on the literature of the subject are included in the paper.