Recent results on the stability of time dependent sets and their application to bifurcation problems

  • Luigi Salvadori

    Università di Trento, Italy
  • Francesca Visentin

    Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Abstract

In the first part of the paper we give a short review of our recent results concerning the relationship between conditional and unconditional stability properties of time dependent sets, under smooth differential systems in . More precisely, let be an ‘‘-compact’’ invariant set in and let be a smooth invariant set in containing . It is assumed that is uniformly asymptotically stable with respect to the perturbations lying on . The unconditional stability properties of depend on the stability properties of ‘‘near ’’. This dependence has been analyzed in general, and, in the periodic case, complete characterizations are obtained. In the second part, the above results have been applied to bifurcation problems for periodic differential systems. Some our previous statements on the matter are revisited and enriched.

Cite this article

Luigi Salvadori, Francesca Visentin, Recent results on the stability of time dependent sets and their application to bifurcation problems. Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 21 (2010), no. 1, pp. 79–98

DOI 10.4171/RLM/562