Geometric theory of discrete nonautonomous dynamical systems (Q988527)

The monograph at hand is devoted to the theory of discrete nonautonomous dynamical systems. In contrast to many articles treating nonautonomous systems in a skew product framework the author mainly uses the language of two-parameter semigroups which has the advantage that the assumptions on (backward) uniqueness or on the time dependence of the system are weaker. The book consists of five chapters which in addition to theoretical topics also contain applications to discretized semiflows coming from evolution equations, delay equations or Ginzburg-Landau equations. These examples indicate how the assumptions of the abstract theorems are connected to results from the theory of partial or functional differential equations. Moreover, they show how the results could be used in numerical analysis. Chapter 1 contains the basic definitions for two-parameter semigroups, invariance and global attractors. In Chapter 2, nonautonomous difference equations are introduced, i.e., equations of the form \(H_{k+1}(x_{k+1})=F_k(x_k,x_{k+1})\), which includes in particular implicit discretization schemes. Their relation to two-parameter semigroups is explained and different notions of attraction (uniform attraction, global attraction, pullback attraction and variants thereof) are introduced and their relation is examined. The simplifications that occur when the non-autonomous system is in fact periodic or even autonomous are also described. Chapter 3 is devoted to linear difference equations and their stability. Here exponential dichotomies play a major role to get a notion of hyperbolicity for nonautonomous systems. In addition, they are used to study bounded solutions of inhomogeneous linear difference equations. Invariant manifolds are one of the most important tools to investigate the behaviour of dynamical systems. In Chapter 4, a hierarchy of invariant fiber bundles associated to gaps in the exponential splitting are constructed for semilinear difference equations by the Lyapunov-Perron method. Further aspects are their smoothness and the normal hyperbolicity of the invariant fiber bundles which is important for their persistence under perturbations. The final Chapter 5 deals with the rather subtle linearization theory for semilinear difference equations. the main result here states that there exists a topological conjugation to a difference equation whose dynamics is the product of the hyperbolic linear part with the reduced eqution on the central fiber bundle. The monograph is a rich resource for a consistent theory of nonautonomous difference equations, in particular their stability theory and the connection between linear and nonlinear systems. Since many different and similar terms are defined and the author often aims for optimal results or optimal constants, the book is not always easy to read, in particular, it does not serve as a reference work where one can just look up a certain result and its proof. The reader, however, who is interested in a thorough course on the theory of difference equations will benefit from this book which combines summaries on the different topics with precise and new results.