Sell's conjecture for non-autonomous dynamical systems (Q765852)

In [\textit{G. R. Sell}, Topological dynamics and ordinary differential equations. London etc.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company (1971; Zbl 0212.29202)], the author made the following conjecture (Chapter VIII, p. 134): Let \(f\in C({\mathbb R}\times W,{\mathbb R}^n)\) be a regular and positively pre-compact function. Assume that the open set \(W\subseteq{\mathbb R}^n\) contains the origin and \(f(t,0)\equiv 0\). If there exists a positive number \(\rho\) such that \[ \lim_{t\to\infty}|\varphi(t,x,g)|=0 \] holds uniformly in \(|x|\leq\rho\) and \(g\) from the limit set of \(f\), then the trivial solution of \(\dot x=f(t,x)\) is uniformly asymptotically stable. While positive answers to the above conjecture are known for ODEs, the author proves this conjecture for general cocycles and nonautonomous dynamical systems. These results are illustrated by means of ODEs, functional-differential equations, as well as semilinear parabolic PDEs.