92
Shui-Nee Chow and Masahiro Yamashita
Thus the set of initial data ('(("respectively) which give bounded solutions on
[0,
w)((-w,O])
constitutes the hyperplane which is
a
shift by the constant vector
(I
-
P)
/"
WO,
t)s(t)dt(Q
lo
W,
t)g(t)(dt)
m
--m
of the unperturbed space
R(P)(R(I
-
Q))).
Let
+
iP(O,t)g(t)dt
-
(I
-
P)
@(O,t)g(t)dt.
d=QL
1:
Then we have the following lemma which is the starting point of the paper.
Lemma
4.1.
System
(4.1)
has
a
bounded solution on
R
if
and only
if
(4.5)
+
d
E
R(P)
+
R(1-
Q).
Proof.
This is obvious because condition
(4.5)
is equivalent to say that two hyperplanes
defined by
(4.3)
and
(4.4)
intersect.
I
The geometrical statement in Lemma
4.1
can be expressed analytically by using
bounded solutions of the adjoint system
of
(4.2):
where
A'(t)
is the transpose of
A(t).
Since system
(4.2)
has exponential dichotomies
on
[0,
w)
with projection
P
and on
(-w,O]
with projection
Q,
its adjoint system
(4.6)
automatically has exponential dichotomies on
[0,
w)
with projection
I
-
P'
and on
(-w,O]
with projection
I
-
Q',
where
P'
and
Q'
are adjoint operators of
P
and
Q
respectively.
Notice that
{R(I-
P*)nR(Q*)}
=
{R(P)+R(I-Q)}'
is the subspace of initial
points at
t
=
0
of bounded solutions of the adjoint system
(4.6).
Therefore condition
(4.5)
is equivalent to saying that
d
is annihilated by
4(0)
where
4(t)
is any bounded
solution of the adjoint system
(4.6).
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