Finite dimensionality and upper semicontinuity of compact kernel sections of non-autonomous lattice systems (Q939286)

This paper is based on a previous one by the first two authors, i.e. on ``Kernel sections for processes and nonautonomous lattice systems'' in Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., Ser. B 9, No. 3--4, 763--785 (2008; Zbl 1149.37040), referred to as [I] below]. The paper starts with a definition of the fractal dimension \(\dim_FA\) of a compact set \(A\) in a metric space \(X\). Theorem 2.1 addresses a process \(V(t,\tau)\), \(t\geq \tau\), \(\tau\in\mathbb R\) on a Hilbert space \(X\) and a family \(A(t)\), \(t\in \mathbb R\) of compact sets, invariant under \(V\), is \(A(t)\subseteq V(t,\tau)A(\tau)\) for \(t\geq \tau\). It provides bounds for \(\dim_FA(t)\), provided that \(A(t)\), \(t\in\mathbb R\) and \(V(t,\tau)\), \(t\geq \tau\) satisfy suitable assumptions. One then takes for \(X\) the space \(\ell^2\) of sequences: \[ \ell^2=\left\{u:(u_i)_{i\in\mathbb Z},\quad u_i\in\mathbb R,\;\textstyle \sum u^2_i<\infty\right\} \] and considers on \(\ell^2\) discrete first order nonautonomous lattice systems (LDS for short); see [I]. One then considers LDS's subject to four assumptions (A1)--(A4). For these one can assert among others global existence of solutions for the associated initial value problem (Lemma 3.1). Moreover it follows that the process \(U(t,\tau)\), \(t\geq\tau\), induced by the LDS in question, admits a family \(K(t)\), \(t\in\mathbb R\) of compact kernel sections (see [I]) which exhibits various properties; eg. \(K(\tau)\) pullback attracts bounded sets \(B\subseteq \ell^2\). If an additional assumption (A5) is also satisfied, then bounds for \(\dim_FK(t)\), \(t\in\mathbb R\) can be given (Theorem 3.2). In the last section, the upper semicontinuity of the kernel sections \(K(t)\), \(t\in \mathbb R\) is discussed and proved.