Spectral comparison of compound cocycles generated by delay equations in Hilbert spaces
Mikhail Anikushin
TL;DR
The paper develops a spectral comparison framework for compound cocycles generated by nonautonomous delay equations in Hilbert spaces, extending to exterior powers and linking to stationary semigroups via a frequency theorem. It introduces a structural Cauchy formula and embracing-space machinery to handle unbounded perturbations, enabling robust criteria that preserve uniform exponential dichotomies and potentially guarantee global stability. Central to the approach are additive compounds $A^{[\otimes m]}$ and $A^{[\wedge m]}$, their description in terms of diagonal Sobolev/embracing spaces, and the formulation of frequency inequalities using the transfer operator $W(p)$. The results provide a rigorous pathway to exclude closed invariant contours on attractors and suggest practical algorithms for nonlinear delay systems, with computational strategies and scalar-delay exemplars discussed as future work.
Abstract
We study linear cocycles generated by nonautonomous delay equations in a suitable Hilbert space and their extensions, called compound cocycles, to exterior powers. Using a recent version of the frequency theorem, we develop analytical techniques for comparing spectral properties, such as uniform exponential dichotomies, between such cocycles and semigroups generated by stationary equations. These methods are based on properties related to regularity and structure in PDEs associated with delay equations. In particular, the developed machinery leads to effective robust criteria that guarantee the absence of closed invariant contours on global attractors arising in nonlinear problems and are expected to ensure global stability.
