A Massera type theorem for almost automorphic solutions of differential equations (Q703893)

The paper is concerned with the existence of almost-automorphic solutions to periodic, inhomogeneous linear evolution equations of the form \[ x'(t)=A(t)x(t) +f(t), \quad t\in \mathbb R, \;x(t)\in X, \] where \(X\) is a Banach space, \(A(\cdot)\) is a \(\tau\)-periodic (possibly unbounded) linear operator-valued function and \(f\) is an \(X\)-valued almost-automorphic function. The Massera theorem states that if \(X\) is of finite dimension and \(A(t)\) and \(f(t)\) are periodic with the same period \(\tau\), then the above equation has a \(\tau\)-periodic solution if and only if it has a bounded solution on \(\mathbb R^+\). Recently, there has been an increasing interest in extending this classical result to various classes of functions. In this paper, the authors make an attempt to give an extension of the Massera theorem to almost-automorphic, compact almost-automorphic solutions to the above equation. The idea of proving the results is to use the reduction method [see \textit{G. M. N'Guérékata}, Almost automorphic and almost periodic functions in abstract spaces. New York, NY: KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publishers (2001; Zbl 1001.43001)] and the decomposition technique [see \textit{T. Naito, Nguyen Van Minh, R. Miyazaki} and \textit{Jong Son Shin}, J. Differ. Equations 160, 263--282 (2000; Zbl 0948.34034)].