Hausdorff and fractal dimensions of attractors for functional differential equations in Banach spaces (Q6187687)

The main aim of the present paper is to obtain estimations of Hausdorff dimension and fractal dimension of global attractors and pullback attractors for both autonomous and nonautonomous functional differential equations in Banach spaces. The study of attractors and their Hausdorff dimension and fractal dimension estimation is very important, if the attractors have finite Hausdorff dimension or fractal dimension, then the attractors can be described by a finite number of parameters and hence the dynamics of the infinite dynamical systems are likely to be studied by the concepts and methods of finite dimensional dynamical systems. The authors adoptted the state decomposition of phase space based on the exponential dichotomy of the studied FDEs in order to surmount the barrier caused by the lack of orthogonal projectors with finite rank, which is the key tool for proving the squeezing property of partial differential equations in Hilbert spaces. Notice that the current dimensions estimation methods are mainly obtained in Hilbert spaces, but there are many evolution equations arising from real world modelings defined in Banach spaces. The authors generalize the method established in Hilbert spaces to general Banach spaces, and first establish some new criterions for the finite Hausdorff dimension and fractal dimension of attractors in Banach spaces by combining the squeezing property and the covering of finite subspace of Banach spaces.