Continuity of dynamical structures for nonautonomous evolution equations under singular perturbations (Q715717)

In this long and very interesting paper, the authors study the continuity of invariant sets for nonautonomous infinite-dimensional dynamical systems under singular perturbations. The authors prove that a bounded hyperbolic global solution persists under singular perturbations and that their nonlinear unstable manifold behave continuously. Their extension of existing results on lower semicontinuity of attractors of autonomous and nonautonomous dynamical systems is accomplished through a detailed analysis of the structure of the invariant sets and its behavior under perturbation. In particular, they establish results on the roughness of exponential dichotomies under singular perturbations. The results imply that, if the limiting pullback attractor of a nonautonomous dynamical system is the closure of a countable union of unstable manifolds of global bounded hyperbolic solutions, then it behaves continuously (upper and lower) under singular perturbations. In the first two sections they introduce the problem, recall known and define new notions, and state the main results in Theorems 2.17, 2.18 and 2.19. In Sections 3 and 4, they study the local well-posedness for linear and nonlinear singular processes and establish continuity results for linear and nonlinear processes under singular perturbations. In Section 5 and 6, the existence and continuity of global bounded hyperbolic solutions and of local unstable manifolds are studied. Section 7 contains results on the continuity of global structures, like global unstable manifolds and pullback attractors. In Section 8 follows a short survey on generalizations. In Section 9 and 10, the results are applied to general (convergence of semigroups, asymptotically autonomous gradient systems) and concrete examples: varying diffusivity, a semilinear problem with singularity at initial time, a second-order dissipative ODE, the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation. The paper ends with an appendix on the roughness of the singular exponential dichotomy.