Conditional stability of systems of ordinary differential equations of semihyperbolic systems (Q5926575)

The author considers semihyperbolic linear equations \(\dot{x} = A(t)x\), i.e. the fundamental matrix \(\Phi(t)\) satisfies \[ \begin{multlined}\int_{t_0}^t \|\Phi(t) \Phi^{-1}(\tau) P^+(\tau)\|\exp(-\lambda(1+\varepsilon)\tau) d\tau + \\ \int_t^\infty \|\Phi(t) \Phi^{-1}(\tau) P^-(\tau)\|\exp(-\lambda(1+\varepsilon)\tau) d\tau \leq C \exp(-\lambda t)\end{multlined} \] with piecewise continuous complementary projection matrices \(P^-, P^+\) and positive constants \(\lambda\) and \(\varepsilon\). The main result gives conditions on the function \(f\) in the nonlinear equation \(\dot{x} = A(t)x + f(t,x)\) such that its Lyapounov exponent can be computed from the Lyapounov exponents of the linear equation \(\dot{x} = A(t)x\).