In this article we introduce the notion of a minimal attractor for families of operators that do not necessarily form semigroups. We then obtain some results on the existence of the minimal attractor. We also consider the nonautonomous case. As an application, we obtain the existence of the minimal attractor for models of Cahn-Hilliard equations in deformable elastic continua.
We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a reaction-diffusion equation in the whole space driven by a spatially homogeneous Wiener process with finite spectral measure. The existence of a random attractor is established for initial data in suitable weighted -space in any dimension, which complements the result from P. W. Bates, K. Lu, and B. Wang (2013). Asymptotic compactness is obtained using elements of the method of short trajectories.
A class of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems is defined for which there exists a unique equilibrium point, and the rate of convergence to this point of the trajectories of a dynamical system from the above class is exponential. All the trajectories of the system converge to this point as t → +∞, no matter what the initial conditions are. This class consists of strongly dissipative systems. An example of such systems is provided by passive systems in network theory (see, e.g., MR0601947...