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350 Global Attractors of Non-autonomous Dissipative Dynamical Systems
These singleton valued pullback attractor–trajectories inherit the periodicity or
almost periodicity of the differential equation and of the differential equation and
step-size sequence, respectively. This is formulated in the following theorem, the
proof of which will be presented in the remainder of this section. The periodic case
is straightforward, while the almost periodic case is considerably more complicated
and requires the introduction of appropriate definitions and a number of auxiliary
results.
Recall that the set A ⊂ P is called minimal with respect to a dynamical system
(Ω, R, σ) if it is nonempty, closed and invariant and if no proper subset of A has
these properties.
Theorem 10.4 Suppose that the assumptions of Theorem 10.3 hold and that Ω
is minimal. Then the singleton valued pullback attractor–trajectory I
ω
= {a
∗
(ω)} is
periodic (resp., almost periodic) if ω ∈ Ω is periodic (resp., almost periodic), whereas
the numerical singleton valued pullback attractor–trajectory I
δ
(h,ω)
= {a
∗
δ
(h, ω)} is
periodic (resp., almost periodic) if q = (h, ω) ∈ Q
δ
is periodic (resp., almost peri-
odic).
Definition 10.1 A sequence h = {h
n
}
n∈Z
is m–periodic if h
n+m
= h
n
for all n
∈ Z or, equivalently, if ˜σ
m
h = h, where m is the smallest integer for which these
equalities hold.
Recall that we have defined a time sequence {t
n
(h)}
n∈Z
by t
0
(h) = 0, t
n
(h) :=
P
n−1
j=0
h
j
and t
−n
(h) := −
P
n
j=1
h
−j
for n ≥ 1 corresponding to a given sequence
h = {h
n
}
n∈Z
.
Lemma 10.5 Let h ∈ H
δ
be m–periodic and let ω ∈ Ω be τ–periodic with respect
to σ, that is with σ
τ
ω = ω where τ ∈ R
+
. Then the point (h, ω) ∈ Q
δ
= H
δ
×Ω is
periodic with respect to Θ = (˜σ, σ) if and only if t
m
(h)/τ is rational.
Proof. Suppose that t
m
(h)/τ = k/l for some k, l ∈ N. Then lt
m
(h) = kτ and
Θ
lm
(h, ω) = (h, σ
lt
m
(h)
ω) = (h, σ
kτ
ω) = (h, ω). On the other hand, suppose that
Θ
k
(h, ω) = (h, ω) for some k ∈ N. Then (˜σ
k
h, σ
t
k
(h)
ω) = (h, ω), which implies that
k = l
1
m and t
k
(h) = l
1
t
m
(h) = l
1
t
m
(h) = l
2
τ where l
1
, l
2
∈ N. Hence t
m
(h)/τ =
l
1
/l
2
.
The following result can be found in
[
32, 304
]
.
Theorem 10.5 Let (X, T, π) be a dynamical system on a compact metric space
(X, ρ). Then a point x ∈ X is almost periodic if and only if for every ε > 0 there