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JOURNAL OF DIFFERENTIAL FQUATIONS 103, 278-322 (1993) Stability of Integral Manifold and Orbital Attraction of Quasi-periodic Motion YinGret Y1 Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology, Adanta, Georgia 30332-0190 Received April 8, 1991; revised June 5, 1991 1, INTRODUCTION Consider 2 =A(O, 1, A) z+ F(z, 0,1, 4) 8 = QUO, 1 1) + Gz, O14), ae where (=, 0, 4)eR"x T* x R", F=O(|z|*), G=O(|z|), as 2=0. Assume that 2 = A(O(1), 1,0) 2, (1.2) where 6(r), the solution of 6’ = Q(8, t,0) with 6(0)=0,, has an Exponen- tial Dichotomy on R uniformly for 0y¢ 7*. Then it is shown in Yi [35] that (1.1), has for each “small” 2 a unique integral manifold of type S,= {80,001 06 TS te R} (13); and S, enjoys the same kind of “smoothness” as the original system (1.1); In the classical integral manifold theories (see Hale [9, 10], Chow and Hale [4] for the cases that 4 is a constant matrix), it is known that the integral manifold S, looks locally like a “saddle node,” that is, the stable and unstable manifolds of S;, W;, and W, exist and can be characterized by {(Zo. 90. t)| the solution (2, 6) of (1.1), through (29,9) at time + satisfies |2—/,(0,1)| +0 “exponentially” as + +0 } (14), From this definition, we see that any “trajectory” (2(1), A), NeW? (Wz) (by trajectory, we mean that (2(r), 6(1)) solves (1.1) ) is attracted (repelled) 278 0022-0396'93 $5.00 Copyright «1993 by Academic Press, Ine All rights of reproduction in any form reserved STABILITY OF INTEGRAL MANIFOLDS 279 by a “curve” (f;(0(1), 0, 6(0), 2) on S; ((f,((1), 0, G(x)) is not necessarily a solution of (1.1),), and hence is attracted (repelled) by S;. We will show in Section 5 that the classical stability results hold true in our generalized case (1.1), and (1.2). However, compared to the classical theories, our stable (unstable) manifold W (W; ) of S, is constructed in a different but equivalent way so that any “trajectory” on Wt (W;) is attracted (repelled) by a true “srajectory” on S;. That is, S, actually enjoys “orbital” stability (see Henry [13] for a similar result). To be more precise, we have the following theorem. THEOREM. Consider (1.1);, (1.2). Assume that A, Q are Ct (r>1) in 8, 4, and F, G are C' in Z, 0, and i. so that A, Q, F,G and all their partial derivatives are uniformly bounded and uniformly continuous on T* x Rx I or ExT*xRx1, where 1={2R"||A|<1} and Ec R" is an arbitrary compact subset. Let dy be the smallest Lyapunov exponent of (1.2) in absolute value, Lo =: Supe r+, ¢« x | Gu Q(0, t, 0)|. Suppose that La R"), and that the Sacker-Sell spectrum (see Sect. 2) of the variational equation VY =f GO) Y (1.6) satisfies Fy ¢(—20, 0). Here Dy is referred to as the normal spectrum (see Sect. 2) of (1.6). Then {(t)} is of asymptotic orbital stability in the sense that there is an ¢>O such that if a solution x(t) of (1.5) satisfies Ix(t.)—qlarty, 4 t;)|

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