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Orbit equivalence of global attractors of semilinear parabolic differential equations

Author(s): Bernold Fiedler; Carlos Rocha
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 352 (2000), 257-284.
MSC (1991): Primary 58F39, 35K55, 58F12
Posted: September 21, 1999
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Abstract: We consider global attractors ${\cal A}_f$ of dissipative parabolic equations

\begin{equation*}u_t=u_{xx}+f(x,u,u_x) \end{equation*}

on the unit interval $0\leq x\leq 1$ with Neumann boundary conditions. A permutation $\pi _f$ is defined by the two orderings of the set of (hyperbolic) equilibrium solutions $u_t\equiv 0$ according to their respective values at the two boundary points $x=0$ and $x=1.$ We prove that two global attractors, ${\cal A}_f$ and ${\cal A}_g$, are globally $C^0$ orbit equivalent, if their equilibrium permutations $\pi _f$ and $\pi _g$ coincide. In other words, some discrete information on the ordinary differential equation boundary value problem $u_t\equiv 0$ characterizes the attractor of the above partial differential equation, globally, up to orbit preserving homeomorphisms.


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Bernold Fiedler
Affiliation: Institut für Mathematik I, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 2-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Carlos Rocha
Affiliation: Departamento de Matemática, Instituto Superior Técnico, Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02209-6
PII: S 0002-9947(99)02209-6
Received by editor(s): September 17, 1996
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 12, 1997
Posted: September 21, 1999
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


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