Non-autonomous perturbation of autonomous semilinear differential equations: continuity of local stable and unstable manifolds (Q868842)

The authors prove a result on lower semicontinuity of pullback attractors for non-autonomous dynamical systems given by semilinear differential equations in a Banach space. The considered situation is that the perturbed dynamical system is nonautonomous whereas the limiting dynamical system is an autonomous gradient dynamical systems. Thus the limiting system has a global attractor given as union of the unstable manifolds of the hyperbolic equilibrium points. Starting with a semilinear autonomous equation with a hyperbolic equilibrium and introducing a very small non-autonomous perturbation they prove the existence of a hyperbolic global solution for the perturbed equation near this equilibrium. Then they prove that the local unstable and stable manifolds associated to them are given as graphs. Here, the roughness of dichotomy plays an important rôle. The continuity of these local unstable and stable manifolds with respect to the perturbation is proven. Using that result they conclude the lower semicontinuity of pullback attractors.