Equiasymptotic stability of integral sets (Q4940474)

The direct Lyapunov method is applied to investigate the equiasymptotic stability for an integral set \(M\) of the nonautonomous system \[ \dot{x} =X(t,x) \tag{1} \] defined on \(I\times B,\;I=[0,\infty),\;B=\{x\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n}:\|x\|<H\},\;H>0\). Let \(K\) be the class of Hahn functions, and let \(x(t,t_{0},x_{0})\) be a solution to (1) with initial data \((t_{0},x_{0})\). Denote by \(M_{s}\) the intersection of \(M\) with hyperplane \(t=s\), and set \(S(M_{t},r)=\{x\in{\mathbb{R}}^{n}:\rho (x,M_{t})<r\}\), where \(\rho (x,M_{t})\) is a distance from \(x\) to \(M_{s}\). The author proves that the existence of a function \(V(t,x)\) satisfying one of the following conditions is sufficient for the set M to be equiasymptotic stable: 1) \(V\in C(I\times B),\;V>a(\rho (x,M_{t}))\) for some \(a\in K\), and for any \(t_{0}\in I\) there exists \(\delta =\delta (t_{0})\) such that for every \(x_{0}\in S(M_{t_{0}},\delta)\) the function \(V(t,x(t,t_{0},x_{0}))\) is nonincreasing and tends to \(0\) as \(t\to \infty \); 2) \(V\in C^{1}(I\times B),\;V(t,x)=0\) for every \(x\in M_{t},\;V(t,x)\geq \theta (t)a(\rho(x,M_{t}))\) for some \(a\in K\) and nondecreasing function \(\theta \in C(I)\), \(\theta (0)=1\), \(\lim_{t\to\infty }\theta (t)=\infty\); \(\dot{V}(t,x)\leq 0\). 3) For every \(t_{0}\in I\) one can find \(\xi =\xi (t_{0})>0\) such that for every point \(x_{0}\in S(M_{t_{0}},\xi)\) there exists a positive constant \(A=A(t_{0},x_{0})\) such that \(V(t,x(t,t_{0},x_{0}))\geq -A\), \(\forall t\geq t_{0}\), \(\dot{V}(t,x)\leq -c(\rho (x,M_{t}))\) for some \(c\in K\), \(\ddot{V}(t,x)\geq 0\).