Boichenko, V. A., Leonov, G. A. and Reitmann, V.:

     Dimension Theory for Ordinary
     Differential Equation


B. G. Teubner Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2005


 

 

 

Contents   

 

I      Singular values, exterior calculus and Lozinskii-norms

 

1.     Singular values and covering of ellipsoids

2.     Singular value inequalities

3.     Compound matrices

4.     Logarithmic matrix norms

5.     The Yakubovich-Kalman frequency theorem

6.     Frequency-domain estimation of singular values

7.     Exterior calculus in linear spaces, singular values of an operator and covering lemmas

 

 

II     Attractors, stability and Lyapunov functions

 

1.     Dynamical systems, limit sets and attractors

2.     Dissipativity

3.     Stability of motion

4.     Existence of a homoclinic orbit in the Lorenz system

5.     The generalized Lorenz system

6.     Orbital stability for flows on manifolds

 

 

III    Introduction to dimension theory

 

1.     Topological dimension

2.     Hausdorff and fractal dimensions

3.     Topological entropy

4.     Dimension-like characteristics

 

 

IV    Dimension and Lyapunov functions

 

1.     Estimation of the topological dimension of a minimal set

2.     Upper estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of negatively invariant sets

3.     The application of the limit theorem to ODE's

4.     Convergence in third-order nonlinear systems arising from physical models

5.     Estimates of fractal dimension

6.     Estimates of the topological entropy

7.     Fractal dimension estimates for invariant sets and attractors of concrete systems

8.     Upper Lyapunov dimension

9.     Formulas for the Lyapunov dimension of the Hénon and Lorenz systems

10.   Hausdorff dimension estimates for invariant sets of vector fields

11.   Hausdorff dimension estimates by use of a tubular Carathéodory structure and their

        application to stability theory

12.   The Lyapunov dimension as upper bound of the fractal dimension

13.   Lower estimates of the dimension of global B-attractors

 

 

Appendix:     Some tools

 

Bibliography   

 

Index   



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