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The structure of attractors in non-autonomous perturbations of gradient-like systems

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In this article, the authors study the stability of attractors under non-autonomous perturbations that are uniformly small in time and show that all trajectories converge to one of the hyperbolic trajectories as t! 1.
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We study the stability of attractors under non-autonomous perturbations that are uniformly small in time. While in general the pullback attractors for the nonautonomous problems converge towards the autonomous attractor only in the Hausdorfi semi-distance (upper semicontinuity), the assumption that the autonomous attractor has a ‘gradient-like’ structure (the union of the unstable manifolds of a flnite number of hyperbolic equilibria) implies convergence (i.e. also lower semicontinuity) provided that the local unstable manifolds perturb continuously. We go further when the underlying autonomous system is itself gradient-like, and show that all trajectories converge to one of the hyperbolic trajectories as t ! 1. In flnite-dimensional systems, in which we can reverse time and apply similar arguments to deduce that all bounded orbits converge to a hyperbolic trajectory as t ! i1, this implies that the ‘gradient-like’ structure of the attractor is also preserved under small non-autonomous perturbations: the pullback attractor is given as the union of the unstable manifolds of a flnite number of hyperbolic trajectories.

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