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The convexity and compactness in the weak operator topology of the image and pre-image of a generalized fractional linear transformation is established. As an application the exponential dichotomy of solutions to evolution problems of the parabolic type is proved.

The present paper consists of two parts. In Section 1 we consider fractional-linear transformations (f.-l.t. for brevity) F in the space $ℒ(X_1,X_2)$ of all linear bounded operators acting from $X_1$ into $X_2$, where $X_1,X_2$ are Banach spaces. We show that in the case of Hilbert spaces $X_1,X_2$ the image F(ℬ) of any (open or closed) ball ℬ ⊂ D(F) is convex, and if ℬ is closed, then F(ℬ) is compact in the weak operator topology (w.o.t.) (Theorem 1.2). These results extend the corresponding results on compactness obtained in [3],...

We study dichotomous behavior of solutions to a non-autonomous linear difference equation in a Hilbert space. The evolution operator of this equation is not continuously invertible and the corresponding unstable subspace is of infinite dimension in general. We formulate a condition ensuring the dichotomy in terms of a sequence of indefinite metrics in the Hilbert space. We also construct an example of a difference equation in which dichotomous behavior of solutions is not compatible with the signature...