Set-Valued Analysis 8: 375–403, 2000.
© 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
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On Global Attractors of Multivalued Semiprocesses
and Nonautonomous Evolution Inclusions
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VALERY S. MELNIK
1
and JOSÉ VALERO
2
1
Institute of System Applied Analysis, Pr. Pobedy 37, 252056 Kiev, Ukraine
2
CEU San Pablo-Elche, Comisario 3, 03203-Elche, Alicante, Spain
(Received: 1 February 2000)
Abstract. In this paper we define multivalued semiprocesses and give theorems providing the
existence of global attractors for such systems. This theory generalizes the construction of nonau-
tonomous dynamical systems given by V. V. Chepyzhov and M. I. Vishik to the case where the system
is not supposed to have a unique solution for each initial state. Further, we apply these theorems to
nonautonomous differential inclusions of reaction–diffusion type.
Mathematics Subject Classifications (2000): 35B40, 35K55, 35K90.
Key words: global attractor, nonautonomous multivalued dynamical systems, differential inclusions.
1. Introduction
In recent years, several works have been published concerning the existence of
global attractors for autonomous multivalued dynamical systems [3, 4, 16–18, 21,
22]. In [21, 22, 25] the existence and properties of global attractors were studied
for autonomous evolution inclusions. In [26], the results of [22] were extended to
a class of differential inclusions generated by a difference of subdifferential maps.
In all these works, the equations or inclusions generating the dynamical system are
not supposed to have a unique global solution for each initial state.
Some works were also devoted to the approximations of multivalued semiflows
and their attractors [11–13] and in [14] the dependence on a parameter of global
attractors of autonomous evolution inclusions was studied.
Concerning nonautonomous dynamical systems a nice theory was constructed
in [7] for abstract processes and semiprocesses with applications to nonautonomous
reaction–diffusion equations, Navier–Stokes equations and hyperbolic equations.
In [19, 20] this theory was generalized for multivalued semiprocesses and applied
to reaction–diffusion equations in the case where the convergence to the attractor
is considered in a weak sense. In [6] was studied a random multivalued system
generated by a differential inclusion with random perturbations.
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This work has been supported by PB-2-FS-97 grant (Fundaci´ on S´ eneca (Comunidad Aut´ onoma
de Murcia)).