The stability of attractors for non-autonomous perturbations of gradient-like systems (Q872018)

The authors study the stability of attractors under non-autonomous perturbations that are uniformly small in time. While in general the pullback attractors for the non-autonomous problems converge towards the autonomous attractor only in the Hausdorff semi-distance (upper semicontinuity), the assumption that the autonomous attractor has a `gradient-like' structure implies also lower semicontinuity provided that the local unstable manifolds perturb continuously. They also show that the underlying autonomous system is itself gradient-like, and show that all trajectories converge to one of the hyperbolic trajectories.